RE: The bar has been raised for hive proposals

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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.

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I could not find anything on the code that says that is possible...

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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.

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Yep, confirmed later with the rest of the people and gtg pointed code.

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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.
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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.

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