I just was able to recover my account after a frustrating 24 day lock out...to anyone else new...or been around...this blockchain world can be very hard to maneuver around...
What is fascinating to me...I could go and look at my account...see everyone else's positngs...just couldn't get my password to work...
What happened? Wish I knew for sure...had been logged in...may have left...went to go back in and told "incorrect password"....right around that time the steemit website got attacked...people were having trouble logging in...so I gave it a few days assuming it was something that would clear up...It didn't...
Found the "Account Recovery" process...fortunately I had my original "log in"..."key"..."password"...its still unclear to me what is what frankly...then got the generic email response back...eventually got email saying recovery approved...with a link...of course...link did not work...
Submitted again...found the steemd process...saw my account history...realized I hadn't set up my account thru Steemit website itself but thru a third party..."anon"...contacted them...
Fortunately sounded possible to recover...unfortunately I didn't have my order number...fortunately was able to see my original deposits I made to the Steemit account and could prove where those came from...
And here I am...thanks to Chris @ info@someguy123.com...kinda a magical process...not sure exactly who he is...didn't wipe out my account...purely a trust process when one feels they have nothing to lose...just one more blockchain experience I hope not to experience again!