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Re: How to unlock my wallet?
by
kahc
on 07/12/2017, 01:52:27 UTC
I have a wallet holding 23BTC but I can't remember my password. I know all the characters I might of used in it, but I can't remember how I concatenated them. How would I go about brute forcing it?

I thought about using https://walletrecoveryservices.com/ but am not comfortable giving them my wallet file and the 20% fee seems a little high at todays bitcoin prices.

Also if I posted this in the wrong section please move it to the correct sub forum.


I assume you have the encrypted wallet.dat and you know every characters
If you computer may be able to check 10 phrases/sec .

Password length : permutations
1 : 1
2 : 2
3 : 6
4 : 24
5 : 120
6 : 720
7 : 5040
8 : 40320
9 : 362880
10 : 3628800

So with a password length of 10 and if you are unlucky(checking every permutations) it will take a little over 4 days.
I'll definitely use https://walletrecoveryservices.com/  if you password length is 11 or greater.