It is very sad
I hope you all will be fine

Im really sorry to hear you are going through this! I had the same happen to me, but then i realised the passwords were different and luckily I took a pic of my original first password and it worked, but i was locked out for a week! I hope they will help you to sort this out, because I know how horrible it must feel :(( I've been in your shoes!! Good luck xx

@seefood

This just happened to me tonight, though I am back in. There password crap thing is confusing , so apparently if I can remember my password it's "unsecured" according to their site, but then that forces me to keep my password copied, so I am copy n pating away, that doesn't at all seem secure. And tonight this Steemit has been asking for my password to do everything, to change my picture I need to re-input my password?! Anyway, it started saying that I inputted the wrong password but it was the same at always, then magically it accepted the same password a few seconds ago said was wrong. Not feeling super confident about that at all !!!!!!

IF you HAVE your KEYS, you can manage your account ! The truth is not so simple ! (Using python)

The post title is just begging me to do this, I can't help it.

![](https://s10.postimg.org/tagpct9tl/password_incorrect.jpg)

There are two possible problems: 
1. your password manager messed up (has happened to me before)
2. something on our side changed that is causing it to not derive your keys

Assuming you have your passwords then we should be able to fix any bug with deriving the keys.  

### Future Password Recovery Options

We recognize that people are use to being able to recover their passwords when they are lost. People who are use to cryptocurrency know that this isn't normally possible.  We have a proposed solution to this here:

https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/240

Unfortunately, it will probably be opt-in which means this future solution may not be able to help you.

You can contact me, dan at steemit.com, and I will try to get to the bottom of things.

Every time I see a post like, even though each one is different- I get the message that I need to reexamine my password usage. I look forward to the future opt-in recovery though.

Nice picture @fairytalelife

Nice, article

i have 200 followers, 65 posts, 62 following and joined steem in June 2017, first time i want to delegate my steem and also login in steemconnect, but when i tried to delegate my steem to smartsteem bot through steembottracker and redirect to app.steemconnect , i can't login with my master password, then i tried my posting / owner and memo keys and also with private key, but all failed , its says "Password or key is not valid", i raise ticket and twitt steem, but no answer and solution, what to do now, its 10 days now for suffering, please guide me to what to do?

@fairytalelife  Very sorry to hear of your problem.   I think I had the same issue that you are experiencing.  Shortly after the updating of the site after the hack, my password become in effective.  I reached out to @pfunk on slack and he walked me though how to recover access to my account.  I was quite technical and I had to use one of Xerox's new tools to enter my password and have it produce the associated Keys for entry. .....for some reason the password would not work, but the keys were there  and worked perfectly!  Big thinks to @pfunk !   I'm thinking that you have the same issue.  I know the very minimum of the technical stuff, but if you want to jump in SteemChat and send me a DM maybe we can get @pfunk to walk you through the same process.   Minewhile I will try to find the notes I took and post them.

EDIT: I just sent a DM to @pfunk.  Hopefully he will see this post and confirm if it is the same issue.

EDIT: If I'm not mistaken, this is the tool that we used to resolve the issue (thanks @xeroc ):
https://steemit.com/steem/@xeroc/paperwallet-easily-secure-your-account-with-steem-paperwallet-generator

I've had this happen at other sites to me, but they all allowed me to change the password as long as I could authenticate (verify) that I'm the owner of the email that was used to sign-up for the account in question.

I too use KeePass (KP) and write the password details down, triple and quadruple checking to make sure that I write them down correctly and that the password stored in KP is the one that's stored with the site as the password being used with my account, so I knew for a fact that I wasn't in the wrong in all cases.

I really hope that you find a resolution that will at least get your monies back.

I think something like a "2 factor verification" like Coinbase uses would work perfectly for Steemit.  Make it so that you have to verify both that you own the email associated with the account and the phone that is associated with it (by texting the big string of numbers that they send to that email in order to verify your identity).  I don't know how something like this could be coded into Steemit, or if it can even be done, but I know for sure that it would give Steemit users much greater peace of mind knowing that they have that as an option if the shit hits the fan.

I don't think that it's too much to ask from the developers that there should be some type of fail-safe built into the system of users and passwords, just in case something like what's happened to you occurs.  Based on my experience, these weird kind of situations pop up a whole lot more than we'd like to believe that they should (ideally, never), so it only makes sense to have that fail-safe, especially with such high investments being placed into this and what we all hope to be future investors with big pockets.

Also, at the expense of possibly being considered "spamming" Steemit, I suggest that you re-post this at higher traffic times on Steemit, like 3:00 PM Eastern Time on weekends, to catch more attention.  Maybe you can get the right eyes to see it.

Hard fork the blockchain to fix this!

Thank you

Read @arhag post's about password recovery....

https://steemit.com/steem/@arhag/proposal-for-new-steem-feature-deadman-switch-will-recovering-accounts-from-lost-passwords

https://steemit.com/witness-category/@arhag/witness-arhag-update-aug-1-2016-to-aug-8-2016

bookmarking this

The problem with this is that you are asking for a centralised authority figure to grant you the grace and use his ultimate superuser access to break into your account and restore control to you.

In a decentralised, immutable and censorship-resistance system, this is a big no-no.

The Blockchain systems have always been advertised on how ONLY you can access your assets with your private keys and no one, not even the creator, can get at your funds or content. This is the debate that almost torn Ethereum (another up and coming Altcoin) apart - should a network be changed to fix something outside of its working protocol?

It's the same with Bitcoin. If good grace can be offered then tens of millions of USD would had been reversed after the MtGox and the recent Bitfinex hacks.  That did not happen and for good reasons too, because if Bitcoin offered the core dev the ability to change the transaction history then US government could always force them to revoke a wallet and BTC will be useless (e.g Wikileak survived on BTC for a while).

Yes, glitches happen and codes are heartless and cruel, but this is the essence of Blockchain tech. And if it weren't so, then there would not be any point in the first place.

I just hope you and others understand this.

23k is already a fortune in my country..  Hope the experts in steemit or the goodguys in tech & cryptocurrency world can provide u d help u need to recover ur funds..

Hope you get this resolved ,sounds like you are far more tech saavy than I

Since you're on a Mac, you can try my new app, Steem Pressure, and see if it's able to recover your keys. It supports account import via Steemit password as well as WIF key. You can find the source and Mac binary [here](https://github.com/nathanhourt/SteemPressure/releases/tag/1.0-beta2). Good luck!