"The owner key is the master key for the account and is required to change the other keys.
The private key or password for the owner key should be kept offline as much as possible."
- Steemit Website
It is with utter sadness that I announce that I will be gradually migrating my activities to another account for the above reason. The new account will be @ubokobong. Ubokobong is my first name. Ubokobong Akpan.
How long will this migration take? Maybe six months, maybe a year. Maybe forever. I will maintain fidelity with this account mainly for curation purposes, and the new account will be home to my personal unique blog contents.
You might be asking, how secure is this account now I don't have the most important key. Well, to dissolve that fear I will borrow the observation of my friend @carlgnash, "if you don't have it backed up personally, it is a lock that no one ELSE does either." And I am 1000% sure no one else does. How I know? Yeah... I didn't even observe the key on sign up. There most definitely must have been a warning. I mean we live in a world where we assume we know already the instructions and terms, so we just scroll down and accept. Guilty me.
If not for a transaction I needed to do today that required my private master key, there is no damn way I would have known I don't have it.
Why do I bother with creating a new account when this key missing is not even a threat to my account? I figure a future where heirlooms will be in the form of passwords and keys, and I envisage a very big Steem future. So it's far less painful to lose total privileges to a 5 month old account with a few hundreds of dollars in 2017, than lose it in 2050. You follow?
I won't power down as I said earlier I will be maintaining this account mainly for curation purposes. This account isn't going to be redundant. This is just an introduction of another account that I will maintain concurrently. Maybe after a few years I might see a need to discontinue posting from this one. Any way, I will update you.
I didn't just keep my owner key offline like STINC recommends, I kept it out of existence!
If you follow me, please follow me again:
@ubokobong
I just created that a few hours ago with Anonsteem.
Trust me this account is going to be kick-ass. It has the headstart of the experiences I have gathered on this lovely platform in as many months. You don't want to miss this.
Thank you, @neoxian for the effort to educate me on the need to do this. Here's an insightful post you wrote in the past on this subject matter.
With love,
Mister Akpan
