Are the Hive Keys to @lassecash Lost?

I was thinking about writing a Learn to Code post on why it's important to keep your Hive keys secure. Then I remembered that I have at least one more of my Hive crypto fan theories/fanfic/whatever my post about @lasseehlers dumping LasseCash is categorized as. That last LasseCash post seemed to be popular, so I'll try it again.

I suspect that sometime around late August 2021, @lasseehlers lost access to the @lassecash account. Insert "not his keys, not his account" meme here. Or better yet, in the replies to this post.

This post is pure speculation. I might be 100% wrong. I have no special knowledge. The evidence which I believe supports this theory is available to anybody. @lassecash could start dumping or pumping LasseCash tokens on TribalDEX five minutes after I post this.

Even if I am making a correct guess about the keys getting lost, the date I am assigning to this event could be wrong. I don't think the postulated time window would be wrong if my guess is right about the keys to @lassecash getting lost. I have one other clue that matches up with the peakd.com displayed date for last activity of @lassecash. I am saving that for last, so please don't skip ahead.

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It's not unheard of for an account to remain inactive for several years and then become active again. So, let's begin with an instance when @lassecash should have become active but wasn't. Do you recall @lasseehlers' 60,000 HBD DHF proposal? @proposalalert certainly does. Here's how @proposalalert described it:

Promoting Hive in a new way, via LasseCash (Pilot)
@lasseehlers created a proposal asking for a daily pay of 1000.000 HBD for a total of 60000 HBD. The funds will be paid to the account @lasseehlers for up to 60 days.
Start Date: 2023-08-15 00:00:00
End Date: 2023-10-14 00:00:00

The proposal was supposed to be for LasseCash(@lassecash), but it was posted on @lasseehlers' account, and @lasseehlers would have received the HBD instead of @lassecash. Why? As the administrator of Hive Images and MemeHive, if I were to make a DHF proposal for either tribe, the proposal post would be made on the tribe's account, and the funds would be sent to a tribe account to prevent commingling with @holovision or any of my alt accounts. That's generally how anyone would handle it.

I can think of at least one reason why @lasseehlers would want the HBD sent to @lasseehlers rather than @lassecash. It happens to be similar to the reason why @lasseehlers wouldn't want the HBD for his proposed scheme sent to @null.

Recently, @lasseehlers made a post asking if he should donate one million LasseCash tokens to the BBH diesel pool. After much encouragement from the replies to that post, @lasseehlers then donated a quarter of a million tokens. I could make a "math is hard" joke here, but I administer MemeHive, not LOLZ.

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I can't blame @lasseehlers for not donating the full one million LasseCash tokens. In his own words:

After thinking about it for some days I decided on donating 250000 LASSECASH to the BBH pool, 1 million was a bit too much

Quite a lot indeed. Perhaps @lasseehlers forgot to check the Hive-engine wallet for his LasseCash balance. As I pointed out in a previous post, @lasseehlers has been unstaking his LasseCash tokens. He didn't yet have one million LasseCash tokens to donate. He still doesn't at the time of this writing. @lassecash does have one million LasseCash tokens to spare. At the time of this writing, according to the richlist, @lassecash has over 9.5 million liquid LasseCash tokens.

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But Holovision, if you look at the @lassecash account, it's obvious that @lasseehlers doesn't use the account for tribe posts. It only has one comment, and in the replies, @lasseehlers states that he accidentally posted the comment to @lassecash instead of @lasseehlers.

Let's examine that single comment on @lassecash. Yes, it was obviously posted by @lasseehlers on the wrong account. He made that comment. The comment is about @lassecash as a Hive-Engine witness. Ever since that comment was made in February 2021, it has had @lassecash as the Hive-Engine witness to vote for. If you were a Hive newbie in 2024 and came across the comment, you might want to vote for @lassecash.

According to peakd.com, @lasseehlers was last active on @lassecash on August 25, 2021. What didn't happen around that date? @lasseehlers didn't edit the single comment to show an alternate account to vote for as a Hive-Engine witness. What did happen around that date? @lasseehlers created the @lassecashwitness account, which he's been using as his witness account ever since.

It also seems to give his September 1, 2021 post "Expect less activity on LasseCash" a much deeper meaning.

I believe that @lasseehlers no longer has access to the @lassecash account. @lasseehlers can easily prove me wrong and falsify my theory that the keys to @lassecash are lost. All @lasseehlers would have to do is edit that @lassecash comment so the witness to vote for is @lassecashwitness. Why wouldn't he do that?

Will @lasseehlers edit the @lassecash comment to update it to his current Hive-Engine witness account? Can @lasseehlers edit the @lassecash comment?