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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Wallet recovery
by
HCP
on 18/05/2020, 01:00:41 UTC
...could anyone tell me how to do a btc address analysis to get the right keyspace?
If you're hoping that you could just bruteforce the private key by figuring out which part of the keyspace your private key is in based on just the public key/address... then you're trying to do the "impossible".

If this was actually possible, then bitcoin would be fundamentally broken and useless. As anyone could take any given address, figure out the keyspace to look it and start bruteforcing away. No one's coins would be safe.


I would like to recover money from a forgotten btc wallet
If you don't actually have the original or a backup of the wallet data file, or a seed mnemonic or "most of" the private key... and all you have is a public key/address... then your coins are lost. Undecided