Almost lost $1000 yesterday!
Okay not really $1000 USD but it felt like one to me at least (It's $500).
As some of you might already know, I have been slowly putting some of my crypto assets finally OUTSIDE HIVE these days. Don't get me wrong I still believe in HIVE but I think it's smart to start diversifying my crypto assets and try out other things I would have missed if I stayed in HIVE forever.
Some I have put into that DeFi thing while some I have used to buy some alt coins to hodl. Since I am a beginner on these things I only buy the least expensive ones in the TOP 100 crypto list at least. I even powered down a bit of my HP just to put in a decent amount.
Anyways all was doing until I tried to log.in on my desktop and got the following error "We can't sign in to your account".
I don't know why I got this error when I have never even put a password on my desktop but clearly something went wrong that got my profile corrupted.
Immediately searched for a solution via Google and was able to at least copy some files on that corrupted profile to my newly created one.
At this point I was not all worried since I already have a backup of my HIVE keys on my phone. If what's come to worse, the files on the corrupted profile are just 'meh' files.
That is until I tried to log.in on my Binance Smart Chain account via METAMASK to check the DeFis I have invested.
That is when I remembered that I have put my backup seed phrase on my MEMO!!! Not a .txt file but just copy-pasted it on my MEMO on the now CORRUPTED PROFILE that I can't log in into!
So I really panicked at this point. $500 might not be much to most people here but with that amount in my country, I can already pay a year and 1 month of my monthly internet bill. XD
Felt a little sad for hours but then I tried to do my daily runs on Genshin Impact on mobile, I remembered that I have installed TRUST WALLET days ago and so I was able to at least UNSTAKE, MOVE, STAKE ALL of it to another BSC address. Woooh! Comes with a hefty gas fees though.
So yeah big lesson learned here and that is to have at least multiple backups in case you can't access the other one. I for one did not expect my desktop profile to get corrupted like that so I was not able to foresee about my Sticy Notes or Memo disappering.
I’m glad you got the money back, I keep forgetting my Gmail password, I’ve tried storing it in places I hope to look if I ever need to find it, I just hope I don’t forget those places
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I' a bit confused as to what happened here.
What account were you trying to sign into when you got that message?
How come you could log in via Trust Wallet and not by the original account? Were you logging into the same place?
I was looking at wallets yesterday and didn't really get why you would choose one over another. Yet another thing I need to learn about.
Glad to hear you got to your funds in the end. 😊
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Log.in account or some would call it User Account in Windows. Basically when you have multiple user accounts on your laptop or desktop, you would be asked which account to log.in to. One account of mine somehow got corrupted.
After one provides their seed phrases on their Trust Wallet, they will be logged in indefinitely there unless they remove the said address.
I can use my mobile Trust Wallet just fine (send tokens via BSC network or stake and unstake on pools and dens) but I can only do this when I am on mobile. On desktop, I cannot do anything since I cannot get into my metamask because I don't know about my seed phrases.
So I decided to just create another BSC address so I can again use both mobile and pc. :)
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Ah. Got it now. I thought you were talking about a crypto wallet or exchange. 😊
I need to learn a bit more about how wallets work I think. 😊
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