Quote from: arulbero on February 02, 2019, 12:52:33 PM

Quote from: Desmond1543 on February 01, 2019, 12:12:50 AM

I have accepted that this might take for ever, but I would love to get some pointers and help from the community, and I'll make sure to reward anyone who contributes to the solving of this problem.

Having 14 possible words of a 12 word seed makes 43 589 145 600 possible arrangements. Let's say 5% of those gives a correct checksum. That would be 2 179 457 280 combinations.
If I somehow managed to check 1000 addresses each second it would take at max a month to find the correct one. I recon it should be able to push that number. I am also fairly sure about some of the words, which should bring down the possible amount of addresses.

I am using btctools for Python at the moment. I have no idea if it should take this long to generate, on the other hand, when using sites as https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ it generates 20 publickeys in a second. I am sure it must be a faster way then the one I am using.

My method right now:
1. Generage huge lists of possible combinations of seeds, ex. oven rifle phrase planet dirt true cinnamon kick first echo thing excuse
2. Run through the list line by line and generate BIP32 root key ex. xprv9s21ZrQH143K3HKXZ8ZPebpXnQbWRsQeKnoUbu7BzMpgtym7ya8hPaF2dmFS621C2BMnvCb3qYj 4cL7GiVK1VNmnA7wxFtPmBT8U1xUW8D6
3. Derive the BIP44 address from this root key, ex. 1NF7rutG9zTiZ7HbYuqmik2Sbb8HwqJcqG
4. Check the given addresses against blockchain.

You don't know
1) the private key
2) the address?

If you have to check each address you generate against the blockchain, you need a bloom filter like in this program https://github.com/ryancdotorg/brainflayer

2 180 000 000 addresses are not too many. Besides you can save the time of the encode58.

Damn I wish I was more fluent in programming. Right now I am using the blockchain.info API to check balances, which is totaly retarded. As you said, I need to check all used addresses on the blockchain instead.
I was reading about crawling and saving all addresses from the blockchain? But there are over 300 million of those, so yes, I would need a bloom filter (as I understand it, it basically reduces size?)

So there are two approaches, either crawl the entire blockchain, and search through it every time.
Or crawl it to find the public key so I dont have to search through a database.

Please explain what you mean by save the time of encode58?

Br