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@avtandil, thanks for the update & good luck recovering your account. Make sure to learn about the different levels of private keys / passwords.
Once this situation is addressed, I'd love to read the post mortem report... e.g how your account was compromised, what the hacker did, and how you recovered the account. Until then, I'll hold off on upvoting because I don't want to risk rewarding the hacker.
The account has been recovered now (using the normal Steemit method - https://steemit.com/recover_account_step_1), and again I'm the owner. The thief used phishing, giving the link suggesting that someone has copied my friend's text (her account has been stolen as well). Normally probably it wouldn't work, but as it was late in the night, I was not cautious enough... The thief didn't harm the account much, posting only few comments, mostly in Korean, the reputation was not lost. However he managed to send the Steem Dollars to Bittrex, and there's rather no possibility of them being brought back. Pity. But on the other side I'm very happy, that he did it now, when ST$ is at 1,65$, and not some time ago, when it was 7,65$ ;)
Sorry about your 104.568 SBD loss. Nice to see your
account_recovertransaction in the blockchain. Hopefully, in the long run, this experience will help save you from a more costly lapse in security.Have you considered keeping your wealth as Steem Power rather than SBD? Not only will you receive a higher interest rate, but also you'll have higher security and network influence.
Could You explain me please, about this higher interest rate? And how could I later change this Steem Power back to cryptocurrencies or fiat currencies? Sounds interesting...
STEEM Power takes 13 weeks to convert to STEEM, which occurs in thirteenths every week. While this decreases how quickly you can sell your investment, it also provides security. For example, you'd still have 6 days to recover your account before the hacker could get at any of your STEEM Power.
SBD are currently trading on markets for over $1 USD, which doesn't make sense. So if holding a liquid currency, you should hold STEEM over SBD. However, unless you plan to sell your STEEM soon, you should hold STEEM Power, since that collects interest and gives you influence whereas STEEM doesn't.
Thanks, I'll think about it. Personally I bought lately SBD when it fell down, hoping to get a quick rebound, but now the exchange rate does not change so quickly. On the other hand, it may be impossible to make profit from changes in rates using Your method, which, however, is something really worth thinking about it :)