[pcmonk]

The most natural solution for most people is to give shards of your key to various friends/family that you trust not to collude and reconstitute your key (or be socially engineered -- make them talk with you on video chat or something). Require 5 out of the 9 shards to reconstitute it.

Obviously you can scale up your security according to the value of your account and your threat model.

[irjustin]

That's a great method for preventing loss as opposed to allowing recovery.

We need to keep the conversation in recovery because eventually it'll happen. Your 5/9 people could have n+1 unwilling parties where n is the losable amount.

It is unrealistic to say it will _never_ happen.

When my identity is lost... is it lost for good? how do i recover?

If it's lost for good, and i make a new 'identity' then what is my 'identity'... is it just... my reddit username?