Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
by swah on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:10AM
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I actually have no idea how to recover Authy/2FA if my phone is taken away..
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Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
by letsgetphysITal on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:48AM
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Authy keep the seed so you can recover the 2FA token providing you can still log in to your Authy account.
That's why I use Google Authenticator. I don't want the seed kept (or even known) by a third party. I'll keep my own backup far, far away from any device which also can be used to recover account credentials.
Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
by burger_moon on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:29PM
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If you use Gemini exchange I believe they only support Authy, at least that's what I had to use. Which is a little annoying having to use both Authy and Google Authenticator depending on which exchange I'm using.