Answer to: Important info for STEEM miners, Steemit.com accounts (coming from facebook or reddit) seem to loose the 'Generated blocks'

Answering to this post:
https://steemit.com/mining/@artakan/important-info-for-steem-miner-do-not-use-your-steemit-com-account

and everyone else having same issue.

This issue appears when your account keys are updated but that will NOT update your signing key of the witness.
The workaround is simple(WARNING the account must be imported in your wallet first if you don't have it already):

1. open cli_wallet
2. get_witness account_name
3. get_private_key signing_key where signing_key is the public key you received on the first command
4. open config.ini of your miner
5. add line private-key=WIF5_private_key (without quotes) where WIF5_private_key is the key you got with previous command.
6. restart miner

Another way implies generating a new key-pair and update the witness. The steps are (using cli_wallet):

1. suggest_brain_key (copy all the keys generated in a safe place)
2. update_witness account_name "url" public_key chain_properties true where public_key is the public key generated before, chain properties are {"account_creation_fee":"string_value","maximum_block_size":integer_value,"sbd_interest_rate":integer_value}
3. open your miner config.ini and add private-key=WIF5_private_key (without quotes on key) with the private key generated with suggest_brain_key
4. restart your miner

Happy mining !!!