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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Lost 3 out of 24 words of my passphrase. Bruteforce possible?
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LoyceV
on 05/01/2018, 16:04:37 UTC
I'll spare you the details of my idiocy  Undecided.
No, please don't spare us, entertain me, I'm curious how you managed to lose 3 but keep the other 21.
How did you create these 24 words in the first place? Usually it comes with a (hardware) wallet: did you destroy that too?

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There wasn't really that much money
Any idea how much we're talking about here? It makes a difference if it's $10 or $1000, especially if you'll end up getting a specialist to do it for you.

If yes, then the problem lies in simply brute-forcing the 3 words, which is about 8 billion tries.
8 billion means you're extremely unlucky Tongue