It's a short read don't worry.
It's hard to ignore the currently biggest move yet, on the Hive Blockchain.
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I am happy to see a substantial post from you.
I have seen this same sentiment from every rational consideration of the current situation. For small proposals like that you suggest to IronShield, or for the CBRS classroom renovation that has been completed (without DHF funding), such individual downvotes are of critical import, rather than a bar that has to be set to prevent theft of $M's.
It is extremely discouraging that this has happened to IronShield. It is potential to the consensus witnesses to stop the hemorrhage of those funds and restore that account to Ben, but that would set an extraordinary precedent that has been heretofore avoided by the provision of account recovery mechanisms. The failure of those mechanisms is an extremely rare and unfortunate event that seems to be unique to him, and I am quite empathetic - my account has been hacked and was saved by the restoration mechanism being operable, but not without loss of liquid assets - and deeply saddened these mechanisms have been incapable of availing him relief.
Thanks!
PS. Pinging or tagging folks is considered poor form, and you can see how I avoid it in my comment. It is particularly to be discouraged when you make typos in usernames, as you did by referring to 'blockades' instead of 'blocktrades.
" that would set an extraordinary precedent that has been heretofore avoided by the provision of account recovery mechanisms" If there is a solution that doesn't set any extraordinary precedents, I'm all ears. Otherwise I'm at peace.
I only mentioned it because it was the only possibility I could think of. It is my strong suspicion that, like I did when my account was hacked, you somehow posted your keys and that bots that scour the chain continually for such posts found them there. While that posting may not even be recent, because the blockchain is permanent, it is almost certainly how you have been discomfited.
It is good you have peace. I have undergone - not to be unsympathetic at all - far greater fraud and theft, that occasioned me the opportunity to eventually shed my expectation of entitlement and gain peace. I have learned brutal lessons I did not want to know, such as that if it happens to me it's my fault, and if 'they' can take it from you it was never really yours.
I am sure all I can offer your ears, you well know, as you have that peace.
The expectation of entitlement is dangerous. It usually ends in misery. There is no problem with entitlement itself, if a person is truly entitled. But the expectation (and presumption) of entitlement will often create disappointment. And it messes with the human psyche.
Rather than developing an "entitlement mentality", I want to develop a "gratitude mentality". Grateful for what I have, not longing for what I don't have. I'm not entitled, but I'm grateful. And if I am entitled, I don't want to know about it.
By shedding expectations of entitlement, it does grant a measure of peace.
Can confirm.
While I can relate, we really must acknowledge our equality of rights to the things we are equally entitled to, lest we end up groveling before masters that sell us our air, water, food, and space to reside.
Oh, wait...
LOL Peace of mind is essential, but we are preyed on and must also accept our responsibility, hoist the black flag, and slit throats that need slitting. Life is an act of war, and peace is only truly availed them with the strength to cause our predators more suffering than our stuff is worth if they manage to steal it. It isn't wrong of us to be equally entitled to the blessings God has provided, and to insist depraved megalomaniacs keep their hands out of our pockets.
Carlos Santana once told me, when I pointed out life is an act of war, that of all the living things there are, people can alone make peace, and this is our purpose. That profoundly changed me, I hope for the better, but peace does depend on the ability to inflict too much suffering on our predators to be worth stealing from, and we have a responsibility to mitigate our peace with war, that there might be any peace at all.
My account has been hacked, but it was through pilot error, which is almost exclusively how 'hacking' is accomplished - simply taking advantage of mistakes people make. For a long time I just used my owner key to post.
Oops! live and learn.
It should be possible to recover @ironshield's account even if his recovery account is not available. The #1 witness has the ability to act as the recovery account for anyone. So it would be possible to ask the #1 witness to do the account recovery.
No. Not for anyone, just for those who have this field empty (i.e. mined accounts).
My account was mined and I was #1 for quite a while.
libraries/protocol/include/hive/protocol/hive_operations.hpp:* On account creation the recovery account is set either to the creator of * the account (The account that pays the creation fee and is a signer on the transaction) * or to the empty string if the account was mined. An account with no recovery * has the top voted witness as a recovery account, at the time the recover * request is created. Note: This does mean the effective recovery account * of an account with no listed recovery account can change at any time as * witness vote weights. The top voted witness is explicitly the most trusted * witness according to stake.Thanks for the clarification! I was under the impression that the #1 could act as the recovery account for anyone. I looked at the code and I now understand that it doesn't work the way I thought.
This shows the importance of making sure to keep your recovery account up to date.
I could not find anything on the code that says that is possible...
Yeah. You're right. I had a misconception. The #1 can only recover accounts that don't have a recovery account set, as would be the case if an account was mined.
Yep, confirmed later with the rest of the people and gtg pointed code.
Who is #1 witness, I'll gladly speak with him. @saboin
Thank you, I don't want to spam him with dm's and such, but if he is able to help in any way the situation is extremely time sensitive.
Unfortunately, nothing I can do. Read this comment from @gtg
How? that's new to me...
@arcange is that true?
Unfortunately, nothing I can do. Read this comment from @gtg
Appreciate the tag!
Thank you so much for posting about my situation. I'm not going anywhere, it's a long road back, but I'll do whatever I can.