Recovery Account proposal for HIVE

Recently the message has come up when logging into peakd that Steem is still my recovery account.

I had this for my main account, all the rest of my alt accounts have this account as a recovery account so there are no issues there.

A recovery account should be:

• someone you personally know and trust to verify that your account was compromised and
• they can validate that you want to "recover" the account and
• they are unlikely to also be compromised at the same time.

To go through these 3 points. 1 This needs to be someone on hive and 2 Someone that knows how keys work and 3 not one of the accounts I set up

Then who is this... I have no idea. Who can we trust with this. I have not given this much thought before but I do not think I can trust Steem since the whole Tron thing. So the warning is a wise one

Is there a service on HIVE that actually recovers accounts?

Are there "super users" that validate accounts and are willing to do this? I know this is a hassle but in a way it is some sort of customer service.

My option would be:

• Pay someone/a business to do this out of the Decentralized Hive Fund

They would be a kind of service that is paid by the community to serve in their best interest.

• The chance that they run off with your money/account is smaller since they get a regular income through this.

• It would be like a service that helps out users as a last resort and investigates if claims are real.

As this ecosystem grows bigger we will encounter more users that run into these issues. If they come through the @leofinance metamask or the @splinterlands options then the keys are even more of a mystery. Does this seem like something valid? What do you think?

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