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There are a lot of downsides to "Sign in with Google", but I am generally willing to accept them because I think I could recover my account if I lost my passwor
by Imnimo 5y ago
There are a lot of downsides to "Sign in with Google", but I am generally willing to accept them because I think I could recover my account if I lost my password. I'm not certain I could do so, because we've all read plenty of horror stories about Google's customer support. But I don't think I could recover an Ethereum private key. I'm sure there are esoteric ways of doing this. But ultimately what I want is the comfort that if worst comes to worst, there is a human somewhere on the planet who can reset my password for me. They might be hidden in a nigh-impenetrable labyrinth of automated emails, but they exist, and I could get them to help me if I make enough of a fuss on Twitter.
- bcmillegan 5y agoFYI, you can still have that exact kind of service with Ethereum accounts, some wallets offer that. It's improving all the time, but there are already and will continue to be many offerings on how to manage an Ethereum account. But the key thing is that the underlying system is the same.
- Imnimo 5y agoBut ultimately, even if I trust someone else with my private key, if they lose it, it's irrecoverably lost forever. If Google loses my password, they just set me up with a new one, and I'm on my merry way.