Up until now, I was logged in continuously for years and was at least able to post and comment.
For example if you are using Hive Keychain the keys are right there in your browser extension and you can easily extract them. Of course Keychain does not store the owner key which is pretty important for "owning" your account, but all you need is the "active" key to powerdown and move that value to a safer place, which keychain might have... assuming you use it.
master key and activation
The master key can't unlock anything on Hive.
It can only be used to generate your other 4 keys.
If you have the master key you need to use it to generate the other 4 keys.
If you have a master key go to this website and type in your username (
This website shows that your owner key has not changed (at least since 2020).
The chance that you have been hacked is very low.
If you have a valid owner key it can be used to change both the active and posting keys.
I think technically the owner key can be used to sign all operations but some frontends can have trouble with it so it's better to check if you can change the keys. Of course it would be unlikely that, given 5 keys, the master or owner would be correct but the active/posting/memo would be incorrect. Still worth a try though.
That's about all the advice I can think of at the moment.
If you're close to giving up you might consider direct messaging me your private keys on Discord so I can personally take a look at them.
RE: NO ACCOUNT ACCESS. ASKING FOR HELP WITH ACCOUNT RECOVERY.