So the last 24 hours was awful. And it’s shocking to learn someone who follows processes as much as I do lost his Reddit account, and almost lost his vault.

Hey all, this is your captain speaking. So yesterday was the first time in 6 months my phone booted me out of Reddit. Was completely random, and having not really thought about it since my account’s inception, I was disturbed to find out none of my standard passwords (or their variations for that matter) worked. No big deal, I’ll have them email me a password reset!

… and I sent a request to my email. Nothing. Nada.

…okay but hey I’ve GOTTA be able to retrieve my account by phone number or something right?

Narrator: “He would in fact, not be right.”

Apparently, when you set up your phone account via Reddit, they don’t require an email or anything. Apparently, I had to back it up in the settings, and I just had glossed over that. Probably because I came to Reddit to learn about the GME blow up, and actually found out about r/cryptocurrency like a month later. And opened my vault a month after that. After two months of auto signing in, you don’t even think about things like backup.

FUCK. What about my 10k moons?!

Thank GOODNESS I had written my seed phrase down. I’ll just have Reddit team verify the seed phrase is linked to my account and…

Noopppppee. Right. It doesn’t work that way.

Several hours of attempted work around later and I find out that I can in fact send the moon from my old vault to this new (AND BACKED UP!!) account’s vault. All I need to do is download meta mask and set it up for the Ethereum Testnet and create the wallet for a specialized token and… oh… oh you have to delete and reinstall metamask and…

Does this sound -awful- to you yet?

Needless to say, I’m creating a hard set of passwords and testing all of them for all my accounts, along with resetting my email passwords and backing them up via 2fa too.

Sometimes crypto can be really fucking stomach churning. Special shout outs to u/Nanooverbtc (yes, the mods absolutely deserve their moons) and the two guys who helped me figure this crap out yesterday. There are some -heroes- on this sub.

Some things still suck. I lost my Reddit coins, as well as a free 3 month (I think) premium upgrade, and I posted -a lot- this round. So yes fellow mooners, probably a good 3k more moons lost to a dead vault. But hey, that’s crypto right? TL:DR

-Back your crap up

-Back up your backups

-Never assume anything tied to your coins

-Elon still sucks

-Safemoon is still a Ponzi.

-Fuck Robin Hood with a pointy steel-toed boot covered in Dire Ants

EDIT: THANK YOU FOR ALL THE AWARDS AND KARMA! YOU ALL THE REAL MOON MVPS!