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This is a reminder to all, both newbies and OGs in the forum on account security. It is good that when we are creating an account in this forum or any other important platform, we should always use an email that we have access to all the time. Some people use random emails that they can lay their hands on to register their account forgetting that, if you don't have access to your account, maybe you forget your password or where you wrote it down, you don't have access to the book. It is only from your email that you can use to have access to your account.

What I am saying is that, those of us that are using an email address that we have forgotten the password or don't have access to the password, should go and create a new emails address and change it with the old one, so that incase you forget your password or don't have access to your bitcointalk account, you will not be worried, as you can just use your email to login to your Bitcointalk account with ease, because a link will be sent to that email from the admin here, which gives you access to change your password and login. Try not to save any password in your head, because it is a big risk but write it down in a notebook, and back it up so that when you misplace wherever you wrote your password down, you can reach out for the back ups. Don't save your password on cloud flare or on your computer, because it is dangerous and can easily be accessed.

You should also make sure that the email you use on Bitcointalk account registration is very active on your device or computer for notifications, and don't ignore any notification from that email address so that if your account is hacked, immediately you will know, and if you are smart enough, you can use your email to reset your account password, before the hacker changes the email address to your account. I am saying this from the experience of what happened to me last week Saturday, I don't know how I forget my password, and when I reached out for the book where I wrote it on, I couldn't lay my hands on it.

I got worried, and didn't enjoy my Easter day, because of not having access to the email which I used to register my account, as it has been 2yrs since I created that email before I used it to register my bitcointalk account here. I neglected checking if I still have access to the email address, because I believe that the password is safe and anytime I want it, I can get it. To cut the story short, it was on Tuesday this week that I was able to have access to the email for a change of password on my Bitcointalk account, which got be relieved.

So tell me if you have had such experience of not being able to login to your Bitcointalk forum account due to password issues, and how did you feel about it. Let's discuss.

Let's discuss about warning and guides from theymos.

I will go for password reset which will be through a link sent me through email. I have written my password several times to the extent that I may not forget it. Although, I should not rely on memory and that makes me have the password backup somewhere. The password is strong enough against hacking and I use only the official forum link to login and not a hacker's link.

I try to prevent against this by -

• Having several password backups
• Having backups for my email and recovery emails
• Having means of recovering my account if it is lost (a staked address)
• I do not use it, but you can use the 2FA option.

- Jay -

This method is good, I prefer it but one way if mastering password is regular logout and login as inputting the password during login can help master one password, if the password is full of characters that it's complications is a difficult one after writing it down one should keep login and logout , that give room for off hand mastering that one will not required any other medium of savings except one have issue in mental health.

First of all, thanks for the remainder, I checked whether I have access to the email that I used to register then I realized I flashed my device where that email logged in and I remember the password still can't able to log in for some reason so now I registered a fresh email that will serve that purpose you mentioned.

Still, there are other ways to recover in case if we lose access but it's time consuming procedure so I urge everyone to check whether you have access to the email that you have under your profile.

I still prefer using a password I can remember instead of writing it down. Any person who makes a mistake of using Gmail's that don't exist or they barley have access to is only putting his account to risk of being lost and not accessible. On joing the forum, I still remember that I had created a new email account since upon creating with my real email account, I got the proxy ban and hence could no longer use same email address. I simply created a new email and then saved the password though I already knew it as it's a password I use for only my confidential details.

Another reason why some user will forget their account password is because they are always logged in and don't bother logging out sometimes. This way, when they are logged out from the forum, it becomes hard for them to remember which password they had used in creating their accounts. Once in a while, it would be better to log out and log in to you btt account so as to always remember what password you had used.

This will harm your privacy because if there's a pop up notification about this forum when someone see your phone, they will know if you have account in this forum and know you're have interest to Bitcoin.

Learn to memorize your password by login manually every time you want to access this forum, don't just login for one time.

Another thing you need to use 2FA, even the hacker can change your email and password, but if they didn't know the 2FA code, you will be safe.

But do we really need to get afraid with that? I think there's no risk for us if people would randomly see that we have account of this forum since that doesn't mean that we flex our asset to them. If they know then maybe they will just say that o the guy is crypto user but for sure they would never think about doing bad things unless the one you suddenly show is your wallet with 1 BTC or above inside of it since for sure you will be in trouble if the criminals would see it.

But in this case we should never forget our password and make sure that we write it up on safe offline materials which we are the one who can access it and have working email attach with our accounts so that we can make sure that we are totally safe from any dangers that we don't want to happen.

Have you posted anything about cryptocurrency in your social medias? not about the amount you have.

When someone know you're have interest or own Bitcoin, it means people will see you're rich and definitely think your phone is the place where you hold your coins. If you get $5 wrench attack and they force you to give your phone, what will you do in such situation?

Of course, your advice on account security is very important and serves as an important reminder for all of us. The importance of using accessible and regularly checked email cannot be overemphasized. This is a simple step to ensure that we do not lose access to our accounts. In addition to your advice, I would like to add that it is important to use two-factor authentication whenever possible.

I had similar issues but though it was not Bitcointalk account but my G-mail account. after I had that encounter I changed the password and kept it in a safe place. My own story was that I forgot the password of the Gmail I attached to my Bitcointalk account. So I was doing something and I loved out of thatbgamil on my phone I tried severally but yet it didn't work out, I tried and tried but all to no avail I have to use my second Gmail account which was a backup Gmail to retrieve the information of the other one. After which I changed the password and didn't update a new Gmail to my BTT account. So we really need to be careful when handling issues of password and security.

Just in case, everyone should at least read once the post pinned in Other > Meta: Recovering hacked/lost accounts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0), which has also been translated into a dozen languages so far, and posted in the respective local boards. So you have no excuses ;)

One way to recover your lost account is via PGP (you can find a tutorial by our friend Learn Bitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3506304) about how to use PGP encryption here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5474187.msg63163204#msg63163204), which is also being translated into different languages at this moment).

The other way is by signing a message with a Bitcoin address associated to your forum account.

Except someone that doesn't come to the forum frequently that can forget their password, because every time I try to log in my account a captcha and password is required some times I even get logged out while still online then I will need to insert my details again but there are some persons that sets there account to stay logged in, this act is not advisable as someone can easily get access to your account without having to enter your login details which pose a security threat to your account. No matter how tiring it is logging in your passwords and other details all the time, it is preferable. Some people still used correct email address here so in a case of forgotten passwords, it can easily be reset and the link sent to your validated email for confirmation.

Im sure everyone here or have account have their own copy and its a responsibility of someone to protect their asset no matter what and bitcointalk account is an important asset for me cause I am using this to learn knowlesge and geenral news on crypto and even used for some privilege earning like signature campaign. So its better to be atrentive regarding account. I am keeping a notes on it aside from save copy on my phone.

It happened to me before when I become inactive after the bounty campaign is not paying anymore. I totally forgot my password because I use unique password which I usually paste on my notes. My notes is gone due to my computer problem that needs to be reformat while I can’t see my email address that I use on my account because it was hidden.

On the good side, I have a phone that login all my gmail account and I use the search button to see emails that contain my username. It’s really frustrating but I’m not thinking of losing my account because account recovery is available on Meta board using sign message of my previous address.

Thank you for sharing this, OP!

This is one of those things that most people often neglect when they create their account. Some of the people provide misleading/inaccurate information that can be troublesome in the future if they lose access to their accounts.

I am somehow worried about the security of my account that I really had to check my registered email if all my information are there. Good thing is, this account is linked to that email; in case of recovery, I have a backup secured.

Just a question, assuming that our registered email in your account does not work, are there any ways in order to recover your said account?

For example, can you present proof to admins that you own a certain account by showing proof of signed messages, etc. as a way to recover your account?

This is an important topic because most people joined the forum without this basic information so they just registered with a spare email they don't even have access to. Some members never believed they would be active in the forum so they just registered with any careless email. The email used in registering in Bitcointalk should be active and the email password shouldn't be forgotten. There is a current topic Please Recover My account (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491229.0) which should remind us of the importance of keeping our email safe to avoid much drama. Although changing an inactive or an inaccessible email is the best option it could also raise suspicion of account change of hands. But it is still the best option.

We should not play with our login details as well as anything that is of importance to us, these sensitive information's should be what we could easily remember and have a secured means of storing their backup, in case of those whose bitcointalk account have been compromised, then it is possible for them to be able to recover it when they are able to sign a message and have the recovery mail to their account with full access, it may only take some time in making the findings and verifying ownership, but it's very possible, in other for us to safe ourselves from any further challenges, regard this, we should be the only one having access to our account use and its login credentials including the device used for login.

The challenge is that for some users, the email address used in opening the forum is invalid, so whenever they lose or forget their login details (password), their account goes dormant because they are unable to log back in. Tell newbies who are interested in opening forum accounts to always use a valid email address that is active to avoid future problems.

An easy password can easily be kept in memory. You do not have to use complicated passwords that you think will make your account more secure.

We must always ensure that our password should be something which should be easy to remember for us which is related to us personally but it would be very difficult for others to even get a hint. I usually prefer my password as something which is very personal to me as it would be easy to remember instead of having a complicated pasword and forgetting it and resetting it everytime.

As far as my account on the forum goes (and for the most, yet not all), I haven’t got a clue as to the password I’m using … By that I mean that It is randomly generated and stored by my password manager, and since I only access my Bitcointalk account from a laptop, it’s pretty easy to operate without having to remember the password (which, were I to remember it, may not be that great per se).

Then there are the logical offline backups of the password manager to cover contingencies, plus the forum provides 2FA (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478824.0) for those that wish to activate it. Of course there’s also the staked bitcoin address (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg10820715#msg10820715) which is a way to facilitate the account’s recovery, which is kind of a failsafe if all goes wrong.

If you have so much private information in your phone or computer, then it is better not to share it with anyone, so that no one can know what you are into through your notifications. I don't give out my phone to anyone, because it is my private property. Memorizing your password is very good, but in a case whereby, you have a lot of platforms where you register a d used a password, it will be very difficult to memorize all the passwords. This is why writing it down as a k up is the best and also having a recovery email to your email is also good. The password that I forget was memorized, and I do login and login out alway, not until few weeks ago that I decided not to logout, and behold I forgot the password. I still cannot understand that I was unable to login with my old password.

In the case of email (account), you should know that if you do not use your account for a long time, you may lose access to your account. Forever.

For example, here's what Google says:
"An inactive Google Account is an account that has not been used within a 2-year period. Google reserves the right to delete an inactive Google Account and its activity and data if you are inactive across Google for at least two years."

Source: Inactive Google Account Policy (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12418290?hl=en&sjid=11178649548660130014-EU)

So, paraphrasing (adding to) the title of this topic can say that "Do not lose access to the email linked to your Bitcointalk account!!!".

Anyone who forget Password for things that are important is not ready for the internet. When you are using the internet you need to have three or four Strong passwords and if you registering any important site, you use any of the password and when you forget the password at any occasion, you tried the three passwords and definitely one must open if really you use any of them. There are three important websites passwords one need not to forget the matter what.

• Your Email Address Password

Anyone that forget his or her email address password is not yet ready to navigate the internet because most of the websites you are registering, it is the email address you are using so if in case you forget your password you can click on the forgotten button to retrieve your password and a reset password link will be send to the email address for your to reset the password.

• Your Social Media, Bitcointalk, Wallet passwords

If anyone forget those password then it is better for him to forget his or her bank code and signature. But your email and seeds phrase can retrieve it for you.

• Your Secret Pins

Don't even try to forget this set because if you do, you might hang at somewhere if you are traveling.
Always use a familiar password so that you won't forget.

Either you make an easy password or complicated password is that you should always make a backup even though you can easily remember the password if you decided to make an easy password for your bitcointalk account. There's also a way to recover your account which is to stake your bitcoin address so that when someone got your bitcointalk account password then you can create a new account and post in meta board to request a recovery account and make sure you still have access to the wallet address that you have staked using your account. There are cases like that already in meta board so you should check it out.

Yes I think it's very common to face that type of problem nowadays because people have a variety of emails on their phone and while creating the account they don't bother about it mostly. They just go ahead and click on of them appearing in the sign up with the google option.

Now the case is that they have an email in their phone and they don't remember the password because of the auto login options that Google gives nowadays. Whenever they lose the access to the Gmail they also lose access to the account they created using the Gmail and that's very stressful to deal with these types of situations. So rather we should be more professional.

Thank you Porfirii for sharing this.
@OP, the forum has multiple ways to recover your account even if it gets hacked. The security of your account can be increased by utilizing the 2FA tool since the forum now supports binding the 2FA app with your account. I understand your point. But the problem is that the forum never asks to verify your email. This is why people can even use a random email to register their account which should be avoided.

Since this is a Bitcoin forum, the forum supports different ways to recover your accounts even if you do not have access to your email. If you have ever used a Bitcoin wallet which was posted in this forum, you can sign a message from that account to prove the ownership and you will be able to recover your account.

Composed oneself and also engaged in the moving run of the system. Don't forget your password, even if you know there's accessibility of putting new ones, doesn't mean you should underestimate the terms involved. Our password should be memorial and something we should always remember, we talk for gigantic credibility and also involving our simplicity on forum. Our bitcoin account password should not be forgotten because that's the accessibility of owning bitcoin talk account.

Am beginning to think that you don't get the point boss.
The OP is trying to say he used an email that he has no access to (which means his email was compromised or lost access). So I believe when you don't have an access to your Bitcointalk email and you forgotten you password you can reset it because you are logged out from Bitcointalk, so both the reset password link will be sent to the email that you don't have access to.
However it's hard to get it back that's why it's always good to recheck our personal things (mostly from internet) so as to be sure if they are safe or not).

Read the OP again. Read what I quoted and you will understand what I mean. I understood what I posted and understood what OP posted. And it is valid to post about password reset via email and also to backup your password somewhere. Anyone that is not able to to have access to his password and also not able to have access to the email used is just careless with his account. Although, staked bitcoin address might be helpful to regain back his account.

It is doubled careless practice and not OPSEC.

Staked Ethereum address can be used too but a first priority is a staked Bitcoin address because it is a Bitcoin forum.

Stake PGP key is helpful for account recovery too.

These methods are in those topics for account recovery.
Account recoveries are moving again (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089781.0)
Recovering hacked/lost accounts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0)
FYI: "ownership change queued" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5084632.0)

I don't think that making your password something that is personally to you is a very good idea. At the end of the day you will have different password for different platforms and that means you have to make different personal things to you as your different passwords. This could become a tedious work are at a time you will begin to trouble your emotion with some personal things that are not supposed to occur to you at that time. If you make something personal to you your password, maybe your relatives could one day understand your password because they would also in one way or the other know things that are personal to you. The best thing to do is to have a password manager and at every time you have to sign up in a new platform, you create a very strong and unique password and your password manager will do the rest for you.

Yep I bet people can still grab an account in here just trying each off the account with a password Bitcoin123, if you hear someone bragging they have an account hacked in here, I'm sure that account must have just the same password.

The forum though doesn't ask for email verification during registration that's why some will just register Jeberish email and instantly have an account. 

Very touching story, but after everything you succeeded, and that's the most important thing. I admire your  resilience bro, some random dudes would've just given up and lose their account and hard work. This is a wake up call to is to ensure we've control over or accounts every time. I store my passwords offline in a diary, but its kinda personally encrypted with a certain style that only myself would understand it whenever I wish to access it.

I think everybody should go have a proper look at their accounts now to ensure you can log into it if the device with auto saved passwords has issues, most importantly the means of recovering accounts, we should ensure we've access to those means so we don't experience such things as OP. Who Know, you might not be that lucky. I rejoice with you my dear OP. Enjoy your victory.

Your advice means reuse passwords on different websites and with due respect to you, it is very bad security advice.

Passwords must be unique and strong enough.
Reuse passwords is one of worst practice in security.

[GUIDE] How to Create a Strong/Secure Password (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132378.0)
Are your passwords in the green (https://www.hivesystems.io/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green)
Why You Should Stop Reusing Passwords (https://www.keepersecurity.com/blog/2022/09/19/how-to-end-password-reuse-on-the-web/)

Exactly that's really a bad advice, if we are worried about we might forget our password on some sites that we are registered and have balance there then make sure that we write this details on notebook or anywhere you can access it.

Since if you use that then once you got hacked then provably all of your accounts on various site where your investment or funds are there will totally gone and that is huge damage created for choosing that method so better to secure and have different password set so that we would not make our accounts easy to be access by those hackers.

I think everyone here would benefit from this advise. It would be beneficial if we could take a look at this advise and apply it, it can intentionally assist us in avoiding con artists. To be completely honest, it is crucial that we have a strong password one that we won't easily forget—for every website we visit. Particularly this forum is good for we to creating strong passwords both old users and new users, so that it will making it more difficult for scammers to attempt to access our accounts.

And not only our website, but also the phone we are using, requires a strong password. We don't know who will come get our phones one day and try to hack some of our important items.

Even though our password is not easy to remember or something personal to us which is possible, which should be able to have a good recovery process or have somewhere where it is saved which can be a very good way of getting it back, personally, I see people who use a simple password as risk takers because using a strong password doesn't mean you can easily forget it but it helps to keep ypu away feom account hack and other people guessing your password right. I don't encourage using a simple password or short letters or alphabet for passwords I use long and difficult passwords which can only be known to someone through me but that's not even possible because I can't release it to someone else.

Using a working email to create account in any platform is important because having a functioning working email is also for security purpose,  when the password has been forgotten or when a steangers tries to change your password  then the functioning email will give notifications of what is about to take place. In the forum one of the easiest way to get back account is to register with with an existing email. 

When an account is created with an existing email and password of the is being stored in safe place it means such account have good tendency to last long if security of the account is taking go care of.

You can write it down on paper or use password managers or store it in an encrypted file. Don't store it online and on your accounts like email, social media, cloud storage.

All of your accounts have risk to be hacked so if you store your passwords in an account that is hacked, you will lose all.

It is far from passwords, to secure your accounts, there is 2FA option too. My warning is don't install 2FA on a same device that you use to login many applications and accounts like emails, exchanges and more.

Sometimes "forgetting" is a very human thing, and this often happens. However, because we are in the online world and this can be anticipated, we should be able to consider this possibility. And from then on, we can prepare it as well as possible to avoid the possibility of forgetting things. one of them is forgetting the password.

hence, data backup is best. I personally have never once entered a password when opening an account, whatever it is, without writing it down or backing it up. Because I personally feel like I often forget. Therefore, there must be a data backup and I remember where to save it and it is safe. And this is very necessary in various ways. Otherwise we have to enter or reset the password which may take time and also be a long and troublesome process.

We can forget our passwords that's why we need to have back ups.

Back ups can be lost or unusable too because of many reasons. This raises another concern that we need to have multiple back ups. It helps us to increase chance that we always have usable back ups to use and reduce risk that we will forget our password and lose backups then no longer be able to recover our passwords and accounts.

I've an email that I've access to but I'm also guilty as I do not have a backup of my password. Also, I think people who makes it a habit of saving their passwords on their browsers tends to forget it whenever they reset or format their device and it gets worse if they do not have a backup. But if you're always typing your password to login to your account the chances of forgetting it is very slim.

That’s some position to be in and still maintain some level of calm, given the times you’ve been around and how much value you could have gotten on this account.
Don’t you really feel the need to be well aware of what password it is? I get the idea of how secure it would be, having zero relations to any guesses being randomly generated but other means to security means having to be able to reproduce it when all other odds fails and it’s dependent on you and what you could remember.

Machines do break down you know, there should be some means and
Do 2FA really validates a password when not in place? Because I just feel it’s a second means to security and that’s it.

There should not be a limit to the number of passwords one should have, because as long as you are on the internet, you are going to have accounts across different platforms and websites. Remember that you ought to use a unique password all the time and should never reuse passwords, that is why you should either write your passwords down on paper or you use a password manager to keep all your passwords.
Passwords should be strong and difficult to brute force and not simple or easy to remember.

why would someone make an account over here with some random mails even without having to store their password safe, or even have to make account without a real mail what does this shows inteligent of stupidity. Like it's very bad seeing someone making account with fake details and forgotten that one day for sure they must needs their original mails password to have access to restore their accounts. Usually i love the current implementation by theymos for putting 2fa account, this will eliminate account hack or sales.

It is just funny to see this kind of scenario which is not a good attempt anyone that wants to stay secured without further issues that is going to be delimma for people that are used to creating fake or too many accounts.
The 2FA is a good way that will help reduce account theftand help us to stay safe from people that are good at hacking or compromisimg someone else account. I hope many will see this as an advise that will help them to stay focused.

People are too lazy in terms of password and storing personal information especially when it's not on hard copy. I have a friend of mine who has been disturbing to join here for very long time, though I don't really know if he has joined but back then he is a kind of person that doesn't take something so serious. Everything is for a joke, like even when he creates facebook account and login maybe after using it on the process and he logged out what he would do is to call you to remind him about his password he uses his hand to set on his facebook account.
So, this made me feels that no matter how the forum tries to be simple there are people who would still lose access to their account that is it, it's something inseparable in human, at least having this kinds of people around the world makes us complete. Just as we have mad people in real life so it's in every place and without them the world isn't complete.

Personally I have suffer some issues with email password and accessing my school portal, that has thought me a lesson that I can't forget easily hence I always make sure my passwords are not understandable by anyone apart from me.

I also have a diary where I write all my passwords, to every account I have ever created, I wrote them down, believing that I will not forget the password but yet I have to be sure incase the other wise happens.

This a very big issue that is been neglected by many as long as they don't have any money here in the forum, it's just an account if it gets hacked they will create another one without knowing what could happen if your account is being accessed by hackers, so it's very important that we save guard our logins, whether it's our forum logins or any other accounts it's very important to have them backed up in a save place.

Not really. I’ve only got a very few passwords committed to memory, and Bitcointalk’s is not one of them. If worst comes to worst, I could always regain access through my staked bitcoin address (or PGP key), and if I lose access to that, then accessing the forum will be a lesser problem. 2FA, as you mention, is an additional safety feature when enabled (not a password alternative).

I recall, in another scenario, a password of mine being shown to me from a certain data breach. Keeping distinct not-guessable passwords per site is something I try to do since then, even if it requires the aid of a password manager + backups of the manager database.

Passwords should be given using words that are always remembered. If more than one password is used for multiple accounts, there is a possibility of forgetting the password, so a user should always use a specific password for all accounts. If users use certain passwords for all accounts, chances of them being forgotten will be very low. Besides using a specific password, the password must be stored in an important place while opening the account so that even if the password is forgotten in the future, the password can be used later from that saved place. If the password is not saved, it will be seen that if the password is forgotten at some point, the password of all these accounts cannot be recovered.

Even without jotting it down I have my password off hand, I have a specific password that I use. However I think the reason why most people easily forget their password is because they use different password in different account, dey  don't have a specific password. Most people think that using different password in different account will make the account to be secured, without knowing that they're making a very big mistake.

My advice is to never save information about passwords on your computer or laptop because the risk of losing it when the device restarts for various reasons is quite large

I have experienced this myself, I no longer remember the password from Gmail that I created for my BTT account, that's because I save all the info about Gmail and its password on my computer device

Terrible advice to say the least, your password should be strong and difficult to brute force/guess, not simple and easy to remember. Don't use the same password acrosss multiple accounts, if someone finds out what your password is, they would be able to get access to all your accounts. Always use unique and strong passwords, you don't have to remember them, use a password manager or write down your passwords.

This is very stupid here. Did you know that your password, which you can store in your head, even if you think it is very complex, will be very easy for hackers to hack? Having different passwords is important for your security above all else. Using one password for all the places you visit, if accidentally discovered on one site, exposes all other places you value to hacking. Therefore, it is necessary to separate all passwords from each other, but of course, know how to use them. There are several reliable password managers that can keep your passwords safe. But even if you don’t trust such software, storing passwords outside the device in a safe place will also be correct.
Yes, it may be a little hectic, but it’s better than losing your accounts or money.

"The most expensive thing on earth is human stupidity. Because you have to pay very dearly for it."

In as much as this topic seems to be of something everyone know about it is also very relevant we talk about it and I think it a good thing you created a thread like this. I have been a victim of forgetting password severally, like I will say I don’t have a retentive memory and I was really struggling with how to put an end this very problem I was facing then.


So what I did was I picked up a name my girlfriend tho she is my Ex now and I decide it will be my password to every account or forum I was creating or was already engaged in,  and if the password requires me to add a number to it I will just add the jersey number my favorite football player was wearing. So since then it really helped me because I actually stopped struggling with remembering my passwords. So all I’m actually saying is that if u could pick a single password for all your account you will actually stop forgetting your passwords.

The importance of having a verified email in your bitcoin talk account is because the management of this community of Bitcointalk today to reinstalled the users of this community through their email verification and if you don't have a valid email that carries or linked to your account, I believe that you will totally lost your bitcoin talk account so it is good to use a verified email to register your account, even though you have not used a verified email to register account you you can change the email and use a verified one before there will be issue or replacement will come in the community of bitcoin talk

This post is very important and very cautionary for those who have an account in the forum. Every member in the forum will see while logging in that there is an option called forget password. If the password is forgotten in the case of using other apps or other services, it is possible to set up a new password through forget password, but even if there is a forget password option in the forum accounts, it does not work at all. Those who think that it doesn't matter if they remember the password or not, because they can forget it later and get it back again, this is their wrong idea. There is no problem in changing the password of the account multiple times while having access to the account, but if a user forgets the password, the password cannot be recovered. So new members who are and who are planning to open an account must give a password that they will always remember and note that password in the diary.

Securing passwords is one of the most important aspects of the crypto space, because as far as I know there's no central office that can help you to recover it, so the security of your gaining accesses is in your hands. The importance of securing your wallets seed phrase, bitcointalk passwords and email passwords can not be overemphasized, because if you lose them, that can be a permanent lose.

My personal experience was when my smart phone that I used to access the forum was stolen, I remember my forum account password but i didn't remember the password of the email that I specially created for this forum. Anyways when got the Bitcointalk Link to access the forum, I was very relieved when I was given an option to us my other email address, I accepted and could log in through chrome.

Once you misplace your password you use to create the account from the beginning, it will be difficult for you to have access to that account until you recover the password before you can have access to it again.

I came to discovered that password are very important to your btotcointalk.org account, and it will make your account protected from the forum and it will allow you to participate in any signature campaign you are accepted or make contribution in any of the topics you have interest in the forum.

Yes, anything can happen to your phone you store the password, and it will be difficult for you to recover your account but if you write everything down in a place where nobody can have access to, it will allow you to have access to your account again through your password.

Saving login history automatically in the browser actually seems to make things easier and faster, but the risk behind it is very big because when the laptop or PC is formatted accidentally, we will lose the login history and people who forget their password will have difficulty getting back their account login password.

I would suggest continuing to remember the passwords that we have, when using your passwords regularly so that your memory of the passwords becomes stronger and you won't be afraid of losing your passwords if you format your laptop or PC accidentally.

An average person who uses the internet has a lot of accounts and all these accounts require that you set a password, how do you remember it all, and if you are using the same password across different accounts, you are doing it wrongly and run the risk of being hacked in different platforms all at once. Do not try to memorize passwords, use a good password manager or you just write down whatever password you set.

Despite the reality that is hard for forum members to forget they password since we already know how important password and security is for forum members it a priority for us to have a mental storage of our password or if that becomes hard, we can have them saved on a papar and stored just like the way we keep our wallet secret keys.
Tfhe only time I have any reason to change my password, was when I feel that my password may have been exposed to others and I sense that I am at risk with my security so I may change it from time to time.

You are talking senses and I will have myself for example because at some point of pressures or inability to realize how important a platform I am signing in could be to me if not at that time maybe in due time, I feels so careless and just catch up to proceed with whatever email address that I can immediately get reach to.

Meanwhile.... There some temporary emails which basically I used it in a quickie signing in to complete the program so I can just proceed with my aim and after that little lasting, I usually clean up some emails which I feels it is flooding my email app so I would just trash and delete the email account entirely without having any form of security or contact knowledge on how I can recover it if necessary.

While time goes by, I gets choked up and stranded when I visits some sites and platforms which I formally used the let gone email address to do my registration on the sites so, I will be referred to sign in using my email or recover accounts using my email address but it was unfortunate to me that I either don't just have access to the email but has typically forgotten every damn details about the email address. What happens next? Sure I either misses those great chances to access the interested platforms.

Log in and log out on a particular application or site will definitely help someone to know and remember his/her password off hand, saving your password in a particular site or application will make you forget your password easily because you will not be entering the password to login again and it's very risky.

Honestly I have never come across such a situation, I have been on this forum for almost a year. I have saved my account email password and forum username password, everything very well. I write everything down in a diary that I keep in a secret place that only I have the key to. I have long been very proactive about passwords. Because I know very well how much trouble we will face due to losing this password in future. So I always save the password carefully.

Op all the points you mentioned are valid.It's important that everyone on this forum should create an account with an active email that can be accessed for the sake of notifications and recovery of password if forgotten.
Every user on the forum has a way of gaining mastery over their password but it would be advised to use an active email that can be accessed on the safer part.Personally let me speak for myself,how I've gained mastery over my password,like what I do is I use one particular password for almost every platform online so there no way I can forget although I'm also using an active email that I can access but that's what I do to gain mastery over password.Most users will prefer regular login and logout in order to keep their password stick in  their memories whatever way to keep our password in our memory it's still necessary to use an active email that you can accessed.

There is one certain time I nearly forgot by bitcointalk.org  account due to it was saved in my system, one day I travelled out without my system and its time for me to read a post  in the forum and I remember that I left my system at home, and I tried to use my phone to logins I couldn't remember my password and the email I also forgot my email password, I waited until I returned home and began to search my documents and I saw my password but I couldn't see my email password, what I did was, I changed my email and memorilised my btt password...so it's very important to memorise our password.

That is one of the disadvantage of storing your password in the system sometimes you can mistakenly flash your system at this point if you don't have your password off hand or writing it down in a shit of paper there's no way you're going to recover your password, that is why is good to jot it down in a shit of paper, or better still you can save it in your memory. the reason why most people find it difficult to save their password in their memory is because they don't always have specific password they always use different password in different account that is the main reason why most people easily forget their password.

I'm guessing most people have their own pin code. People use the same PIN code for different accounts, but people who use different passwords when opening different accounts must keep a backup of the passwords so that they can be recovered if they are lost later. It is very important to save passwords to protect not only one bitcointalk forum, but also many important accounts you may have. I saved my password in three levels. I am using this bitcointalk account on a mobile phone and the password is saved in a browser's automatic login. Also, I keep a note of my passwords in one place and if I forget them, I can easily log in by collecting them from the backup locations. Since an electronics device and a function of an Internet world can crash at any moment, it is important to protect everything.

Alzheimer's disease
Vascular dementia
Lewy body dementia
Fronto-temporal dementia
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Are all diseases that cause memory loss

Stress
Grief
Drugs and medical treatments
Alcohol or illicit drugs
Prescription medications
Chemotherapy
Heart surgery
Anesthesia
Electroconvulsive therapy
Fatigue and sleep deprivation
Concussions and head injuries
Low vitamin B12

Are all risk factors and other causes of memory loss

Other mental health issues that can cause memory loss include:
Anxiety: Can cause difficulty concentrating and remembering, especially in older people
Depression: Can cause forgetfulness, confusion, and difficulty focusing
Bipolar disorder: Can cause memory problems
Schizophrenia: Can cause problems with short- and long-term memory

More diagnosis possibilities that can cause memory loss


Write your shit down lol. Keep backups. Don't burn bridges with people you have trusted for your whole life.

This is a very important aspect of account safety you have discussed here OP. People always undermine the importance of always having backup whenever they create an account. Just saving password details upstairs is not really enough though but rather, it should be better if you look for other means of storage and storing in google cloud is not safe but rather writing down your keys in a shit of paper to always assess it when ever you are free to do so without any notice from any body knowing where you keep your details or online information.

If you use a password that's personally related to you, there is no way that someone who knows you very well can't be able to guess it correctly or at least attempt the hint. There are some passwords that are always suggested by password managers.
 
I do feel that they are not safe, but from the few times I have tried them out, they are one of the best because the number and word combination joined together with signs and symbols is something that can't be guessed no matter how hard the hacker tries because even for me who uses the password, it's hard for me to cram it. I always look for my book where I wrote it down before I can use it to login to any website I link to.

If you can't face the stress of always logging in and out of your account then you just don't have to, causing for sure it's really stressful. Instead going through all of the logging in and out due to precaution of not losing or forgetting your password I'll recommend that the user could just use his username with additional peculiar numbers together as the password, the numbers could be before or after the letters (I don't advise using your year of birth, can be easily predicted). Doing it this way you can't forget your password as long as you can remember your username.

This might be unsafe and really stupid but I only have one password in all of my accounts in other platforms including this one, that way, I would easily access them in the case that my automatic login malfunctions and I need to log in to those accounts. It's not recommended but I've got a bad memory with lots of other things going on with my life and I don't want to remember passwords just to be safe, I mean it's all for nothing too when you're using different passwords that are difficult to brute force because when the hackers are determined, they'd easily do it to access your account anyway, the best thing to do when you do this thing that I do is try to make sure that your password isn't related to anything that can easily be traced to you like your favorite pet, favorite music, the date of your birth or where you grew up, make it unrelated as much as you can and you'll never become a victim of brute forcing attempts and even at that point, you're account is way too deep in some kind of issue.

A smart way to work is better than waiting to learn from experience having encountered a mistake or failure and using easy passwords mostly for accounts like this that doesn't have funds in them or is a wallet, is the easiest and smartest way to stay safe from hack or forgetfulness.

I also think one essence of having email accounts attached or linked to one's account is so as for the recovery process of lost or forgotten passwords to go smoothly and it is not compulsory but necessary to have a backdoor access to your account like having biometrics setup just in case, but I don't think fingerprint biometrics do work with this community or does it?

Everyone who has a Bitcointalk account should be aware that Email is another option when forgetting the password. It is highly discouraged to use a random email when registering an account and then forget it without saving it in a safe place and easy to find again when you need it. Many users can no longer access their accounts due to forgetting their password and not saving their email as an option to recover their account, remembering that passwords are not recommended because of the human nature of easily forgetting them. Valuable lessons are always present around us, anyone who has a Bitcointalk account must consider it as a valuable asset to be more careful in storing passwords and emails.

I haven't had such a bad experience yet, hope I don't forget my bitcointalk account password in the future. Those who have lost their BitcoinTalk account password may have faced that bad experience. I saw a few days ago on Metaboard a member posted about forgetting his account password. I don't know if that member has yet managed to retrieve his account password and access the account.

I have printed all the important details of my account below so that I don't forget my bitcoin account password.  Thus,
1. Account Name:____
2: Gmail used in the account:____
3: Password used in gmail:_____
4: Password used in account:____

Also, I have saved my account password in my Gmail. Moreover, I always like to remember my account password so I used the password according to my SSC exam roll number.

 ;D mine is bitcO1ntalk4thewin!

Number Char's
Special Char's
16+ Char's
No 2 repeating Char's
Upper and Lower case Char's

only issue with my password is that it is a sayable phrase, instead of looking something like this:

3$ksO.Ea13k4Lps8!_lolUrMoM!

Etch that in metal if you take your bitcoin/BTT acc srsly for real.