Well I guess I should say when I click on show active key, that active key doesn't match my active key. I never put my keys in the wallet. I always intended to but first I wanted to ask if putting the steemit keys we came over with was okay to put in the wallet. Someone said it should be okay but I never got back around to it.
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Do you use Keychain?
Yes. It was never a big thing for me, I don't even remember why or what prompted me to want to use the keychain. Must have been something I read. I started the process like I stated but when prompted to put in my keys I wasn't really sure they meant the old steemit keys. I guess I just thought it was a password operated wallet. Or secured by a password, which evidently wasn't enough, I guess. I didn't even notice it until I had a problem posting an article. Someone said I needed to do this and this, when that didn't work someone said you had to change that in your wallet and that's when I noticed the problem of someone else's active key in my wallet.
The last person who tried to help me said to try and sign up for Peakd, when I go to put in my active key then I would know for sure that wasn't my key. I really hated to tell her I had been trying to sign up for Peakd forever and every time I tried and go to put in my active key it says there's already an account under my name and won't allow me to put in the active key. So now I know why, someone else already did it evidently, why I don't know. It's not the money, that's for sure. Maybe since when you go to sign up for Peak'd it give you three options, maybe I am trying to sign up for an option my account already falls under, so there's that too.
Sounds like you're trying to sign up rather than login.
Much of what you're telling me sounds more like confusion based user error. And people are trying to help you.
Keychain is quite straightforward to setup. If you haven't changed your keys, they'd still be your steem keys. It's needs to be setup before it works. Nobody can do that for you. Documents are available. Take your time with it. Only need to set it up once.
Logging into Peakd is just a matter of selecting the login option at the top right and entering your name in under the keychain field.
Start browser, sign in to keychain, login to Hive site of your choosing (always selecting the keychain option), enjoy Hive experience. That's the "modern" way, or at least one of them. Keychain will give you popups when you push buttons on sites that require keys, and those can be set to be removed with a push of a button. Quite seamless after that.
I do put my name in to sign in on Peakd, it keeps saying an account already exist with that name. If I could honestly get in by signing on, I'd already be posting there.
I tried to delete the key in the keychain but it won't let me.
Nobody seems to have any solid answers. I asked what if I just delete the keychain and start over, one person said I'd lose my account, another person says that won't happen. To be two months down the road without any real answers, that just sucks.
That doesn't make sense. Peakd is not separate from Hive. Signing up and logging in are different. You can't sign up because you're already signed up, but you can login.
I'm confident it's confusion based user error. Removing a key in keychain is as simple as hitting a button that looks like a trash can. Perhaps you're doing something wrong.
At this point, I don't think I'll be able to help you either.
Give me a screen shot of what that trash can looks like.
It's the same for everyone. You don't need a screenshot. Your private keys are hidden behind your public keys. By following the directions, you'll be able to see which keys you have. The directions are clear. There are only two options. View private key, or the trash button to remove it.
Well I guess I shouldn't say that, if I ever abandoned my account a couple hundred bucks could probably feed a hungry Nigerian for a few months. The only other thing that appears odd to me is I could have swore I staked some Leo once but it doesn't show up as having any staked. It wasn't a lot, not probably worth hijacking, I don't recall Leo ever going to the moon and back, and I can't even be 100% sure I ever did stake any. I've never paid much attention to stuff, there was really no real financial incentive to. Now if this venture had ever gone anywhere, I'd been on it.