Back to collectionA stolen wallet turns node work into a recovery question
Only yesterday the Night Watchman had said he was watching whether the chain would stop. The early node operator asked the community for help. The request brought yesterday's abstract question of whether the chain would keep running back to personal asset security: blocks could continue while a victim remained unable to regain control.
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Only yesterday the Night Watchman had said he was watching whether the chain would stop. Today another operator who had run nodes since the early days faced a more personal risk: the nodes could keep working even as the wallet holding his keys was compromised.
The early node operator asked the community for help. His wallet had been stolen, he still held several Sentry Keys, and he wanted to know how to move them to a new wallet. He gave no details of how it had happened, saying only that he had been stupid. Seeing the message, the Night Watchman first asked him not to post more wallet details in public and planned to help him find the official instructions.
The request brought yesterday's abstract question of whether the chain would keep running back to personal asset security: blocks could continue while a victim remained unable to regain control. Officials had previously said Sentry Keys were soulbound, so an ordinary transfer could not move them to a new wallet. Whether any official recovery or exceptional procedure existed for a stolen wallet still required an official answer. The Night Watchman decided to clarify the problem with him before offering speculative steps.