How to change your Steem Recovery Account with SteemWorld or SteemPeak
I've been asked a few times about this lately, this is one of the easiest ways for people to change their account recovery partner away from steem which is currently non responsive, and generally not the most trusted right now.
Go to https://steemworld.org/@YourUsername
For example my #palnet tribe account at https://steemworld.org/@wizardofaus
- On the left hand side, select Account Details
- On the right select Change Recovery Account
You'll be prompted for the username of your new recovery partner.
Make sure it's someone you can trust to respond to your request within 30 days.
This person needs to be able to be certain its you, discuss how you will contact and positively identify each other.
You will need your OWNER key to authorise this transaction. Currently only direct key entry, and steemconnect are available for this (no steem-keychain yet).
Hit OK and you're done! You'll see the recovery partner change request appear on the blockchain immediately, but the change will not take effect for 30 days from submission.
Alternative Method : Steempeak!
Steempeak now also has a brand-new very user friendly account recovery tools. I didn't realise when I started this post, but I may as well show both options now :)
You can access account recovery tools by going to your profile, and clicking "actions" in the header :
Then click "Keys & Recovery" and the "Account Recovery" tab
And enter your new recovery account, and your owner key
The change will be submitted, and take effect 30 days later.
More info about account recoveries
- How to recover a stolen or hacked steem account by @abitcoinskeptic
- Initial concept by @dan as a github issue
- @someguy123 wrote How the steem account recovery works and why your trustee cant steal your account
- @themarkymark wrote a guide to changing recovery account with cli-wallet
Thankyou @steemchiller for this tool, you get 50% of the payout of this post.
Update: Recoveries at steemit inc were fixed today (11/03/2020)- I would still recommend people take control of their own account recovery.
Now, one can also do it directly via @steempeak. It's one of their newly introduced features.
Not working for me @steempeak
Are you sure you're using your private OWNER key ? Seems like the wrong key type
@ausbitbank yes using private owner key @steempeak , returns that message.
Also at steemworld.org it forces me to use steemconnect for entering the OWNER key for security reasons, but then it fails to create the transaction.
I'm pretty paranoid at this point, could it be that the TRON witnesses are denying this type of transaction?
Same experience here, but got "38" instead of "149".
I tried it with two different accounts.
In the meanwhile it worked here, too!
I can not reproduce this. For me everything works well
Thanks for the heads up, I added steempeak to the post too :)
You're most welcome.
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Thanks for the great advice and article. Not sure who to select as the recovery account. Can this be individuals? Would @blocktrades be an option for example?
You want someone that :
I can't speak for blocktrades, you'd need to contact them. I'm not personally wanting to become everyones recovery partner, only people I regularly speak with. You can even be your own recovery partner on a second account if you want
Thanks for the reply. It's something important to consider!!
what would be the recovery steps? is there any short documentation on that?
cool, that @steempeak has now also implemented this feature :)
That's the most difficult part :) Using a Claimed account may be another option.
This is a great suggestion. In any case, we may not lose two accounts at the same time. If we have to use our alt account as a recovery account, I guess we have to keep both the keys in two different places just to be safe.
And maybe the recovery process can be difficult for normal people who don't understand even a little tech stuff.
Thabks for the mentions...
If Steemit isn't making accounts now, they probably aren't recovering them either. So if recovery account = steem , change now!
Thank you very much for this, in particular, and for all your hard work to implement voluntary society. Few of us plebs realize the debt we owe you.
Thanks!
No worries, you owe me nothing :)
Thanks for this update. I think it would be a nice idea to create a Claimed account and set that account as recovery account. Because we need to consider people who like to remain anonymous.
That's another good option, just be careful how you store all your keys. If they both get stolen at once its useless
Why should I change the recovery account?
Could you give me some reason for such a move?
Because Justin has disabled that feature via Steemit Inc. for now.
Oh shieeeeet, thanks mate
I keep getting this error :)
I get that same error message. Did you get it figured out?
Nope nope nope, I'll be ruined. Ruined I tell you!!! :I
I got mine to work! I was simply using the wrong key. Operator error.
I was trying with SteemConnect, did you have to manually place a key in there?
I ended up doing it through Steempeak.
Maybe I'll just hire you to do it for me hahaa :)
Ha! As is obvious, I am no expert but I am happy to help or work through it together with you.
Thank you very much for sharing this 😉👍 Great info and good to know.
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