Quote from: 1PFYcabWEwZFm2Ez5LGTx3ftz on July 11, 2013, 09:06:06 PM

Quote from: acs26 on July 11, 2013, 05:08:40 PM

Hello guys, earlier this morning I bought 20 Bitcoins and sent them to my BitcoinQT wallet on my desktop. Only minutes after the transaction was complete I tried to send a few bitcoins out of the wallet and it asks for my password..

The wallet was created 6 months ago and I can not for the life of me remember the password. I know most of it the first part is "Jonhjef****" the last 4 are digits that I can not remember. I do remember that they are numbers however.

How can I recover my wallet?? I cant stand the idea of losing this much Bitcoins for such a stupid, stupid reason. Is anyone able to bruteforce it? If someones able to fix this Id have no problem giving them a percentage of whats in my wallet. help please!

You don't even need any software to "bruteforce" it.

Just copy the part of the pass you remember into clipboard, then CTRL + V, type 0000, press ENTER; CTRL +V, type 0001, press ENTER... repeat until 9999 (or until you get it right).

It shouldn't take you more than several hours.

DO NOT SEND YOUR WALLET FILE TO ANYONE AND DO NOT INSTALL ANY "BRUTEFORCE" SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY TRUST THE PERSON/SOFTWARE.

But seriously, it is hard to imagine that this is a real post. I can not imagine any adult person, who would not realize, that there are only 10000 possible password variations in your case, and that you can simply try them all, to "recover the wallet".

What I suspect this could be, is a mass-media shill posting. If someone helps to "recover" the wallet for this person, expect an article along the lines of: "a guy loses 20 BTC, but someone from the bitcoin community hacks Bitcoin to get the 20 BTC back".

Better paranoid than sorry.

It reminds me of trying to open a suitcase with a number lock of which I forgot the number. Spent an afternoon trying to open it. And those had only 3 digits. Luckily I didn't use a different code on the left side than on the right side, then it would have been 6 digits.