Did you access the forum via tor normally when you were using it previously? Or did you access it from your local internet connection? Even if your IP address were to change, the ISP you are using would show as being the same, along with your general location.
Being that you opened this thread years ago, it may not be unreasonable for either of these to have changed, so you may not pass this verification.
Considering the amount of time that has passed, I would strongly encourage you to create a new account. You would probably be legendary by now if you created one in 2017, or close to one.
Yes, I used Tor and I think most people here with a clue would use Tor or VPNs, because there's scammers everywhere trying to dox you/hack you/etc. IP should be pretty irrelevant, what matters most is signed BTC keys, and I still have all of my keys. I tried with the old method years ago and eventually gave up, recently I wanted to post again and so tried again. Even if im inactive I don't want my account to end up in some ICO scam or being used to promote other scams (and that is what happened as you can see on my latest posts).
Im trying to get my account back through the new method. Already sent the signatures that they requested via email. I still have all of the addresses I used with my account so I can sign all of them. My question is, I was asked to click on a link, it says:
"OK, your current IP was recorded and will be used as part of verification."
But I clicked while using Tor, so the IP changes all the time. Is there a problem with that? even my real IP changes all the time as it's dynamic. Anyway, I haven't been explained what this link is for. Im just hoping the signed BTC addresses are enough to recover the address, if that isn't enough to get an account back then I wonder who is getting their hacked accounts back.
The IP address will be used to make comparisons with your IP address logs just before the account was hacked. The IP addresses don't have to be exactly the same but it could give a clue about the difference in your location and the hacker's IP location which can help the recovery team decide on whether to start off with the process of recovery or not.
If necessary, i think you should send them another message explaining that you visited the IP verification link using Tor so that you can retry the step.
I already told them that I clicked it using Tor. Like I said before, IPs are pretty irrelevant these days. The whole point of people stacking addresses here is if something goes wrong you can recover the account. I have addresses from years ago in unedited posts, closed threads etc. I can sign all of them.
