Account recovery/ stake any address

[bogdanoff 3173]

This seems to much trouble for people that are just investors and want to have a forum account. Perhaps the bitcointalk members value their account too much and go to that extra length to have all these verification but a 2fa wouldn't it be helping more making everything easier?

[cryptovlek 2597]

I don't know if there is a post that explains how to sign a message as most of us probably don't know that and if it is something really hard we would probably never use it. If there is such post it would be great to find and read how the signature appears and an explanation about what this means.

[Sykkuno 2887]

Thank for giving us this idea, maybe a verified signature using our Bitcoin keys can help us with securing our forum account. I don't know how to sign a message though and I would like to ask if this will expose our public address by signing a message.

[Irungu 4299]

I think one of the problem that I would face is the problem of having lost my crypto password, because the other day I clicked forgort password but a link was not sent to me it was really tough for me and its important we are able to recover our passwords.

[Fixfin 2569]

It would be a good way to prove ownership of your account just in case a bad thing happens and there won't be a way to recover it, as someone else can have hacked and taken control of it, this happened in other forums too and many accounts were lost and the other forum members are marking them with negative trust, it would have been better to have a way to prove and get back the account instead.

[khan22 3478]

On 9/28/2019 at 1:53 PM, xBDT Script said:

I was responding in another thread about this and I was personally thinking as well. If we get hacked or somehow lose access of our account then only way for us to prove the ownership is to use a wallet address, sign it with a message.

It's similar to "stake your Bitcoin address" in bitcoinTalk but since this forum is not only about Bitcoin but about all crypto, I will suggest everyone to sign any address (btc, eth anything) and stake it here. 

 

I am going to do mine once I have my computer access.

 

Thank you.

Edit: The proper posting format>>>

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I think when we post the signed message we need to use the code tag so that others do not find it hard to verify. Here is how you do that:

 

I hope this helps.

More edit:

A suggestion from @xzibit

 

The post is very useful and we can learn so much through this post and now in the crypto market so many peoples are aware from the hackers that hack our system easily and this is true so we need to secure our accounts.

[zhoutong 2188]

Sounds interesting idea and it will mean that people will start using real Bitcoin wallets and learn to sign with their private keys. It can help with the validity with an account in forums but this is something that will need to be accepted by the moderators of the forum as there is non trust system in cryptotalk. Different forums so you can't mark someone as untrusted.

[Froshk 1828]

Well I have never thought about the possibility of a cryptotalk.org account been hacked, but it's an online platform and yes ones account cannot be termed unhackable, it's necessary to take these prediction of signing a bitcoin or Ethereum address 

[Frodler 943]

Very important topic!!! 

Thanks for educating us on how to further secure our cryptotalk accounts from scammers and fraudulent perpetrators. 

[Ahmad N Ahmad 472]

To recover an account is all about bringing back an account that you create for long and you loss it due to reasons from you or from scammer that want to hack your account. But the best way for account recovery is to attach your account to your email account where if anybody want to hack message will be send to your email immediately so it will help you to recover fast.

[Jhujhu 62]

That’s a great idea, but I change wallets often so I don’t like to take part in it, but I can help you guys if you need help.  You can learn English by working here.

[teebasas 3018]

Thanks for your advice. I had never thought before because I used to think that email id will be enough to claim my ownership if my account got hacked from the hackers. Anyway I got to put my Bitcoin address here on this forum. 

[Bstact 130]

It is a good information and we should make the bitcoin address so that we can make our account secure and if our account hacked we can discuss with them and can recover our account. Thanka for aharing tjis information and you have removed my problem.

[علي سليمان 1071]

A good topic to educate beginners about securing their account, but they should also keep their email away from others, and you should enable synchronization and two-factor authentication, which makes it difficult to hack