Quote from: Paycheck on July 29, 2020, 11:53:26 PM

I'm always looking for a way to get Bitcoins for free for my own personal profit. And at first glance this sounds like an interesting idea, with a small chance of success. And I'd like to think it could work, but knowing there are people out there even more unethical than me, especially foreigners, and I don't feel confident about this idea as a result.

Besides, I'm sure they have tried to crack them and failed, so what are my chances then for actual success? I think not good.

And if I watched this Hashcat youtube video correctly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Y6TPGzVn0 then I have to correctly guess the number of characters in the password to even begin? If I tell it to brute force a 9 character password and it is really an 8 character password, then it will never find the right answer?

I am trying to open a wallet.dat with Hashcat and a rig with 4 gtx1060 cards. Trying with eight numbers I have a time of about 3 hours .. for the answer !!!

Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Running
Hash.Name........: Bitcoin/Litecoin wallet.dat
Hash.Target......: $bitcoin$64$3420a7252f5ee93d31ef7734a56f93fd08e0e6e...0$2$00
Time.Started.....: Sat Sep 12 17:15:04 2020 (42 mins, 4 secs)
Time.Estimated...: Sat Sep 12 20:33:37 2020 (2 hours, 36 mins)
Guess.Mask.......: ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d [8]
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........: 2140 H/s (5.37ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#2.........: 2067 H/s (5.59ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#3.........: 2088 H/s (5.59ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#4.........: 2102 H/s (5.47ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#*.........: 8397 H/s
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests
Progress.........: 21159936/100000000 (21.16%)
Rejected.........: 0/21159936 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 2027520/10000000 (20.28%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:3-4 Iteration:1152-1280
Restore.Sub.#2...: Salt:0 Amplifier:3-4 Iteration:6784-6912
Restore.Sub.#3...: Salt:0 Amplifier:5-6 Iteration:172160-172288
Restore.Sub.#4...: Salt:0 Amplifier:7-8 Iteration:171520-171648
Candidates.#1....: 38117190 -> 39244307
Candidates.#2....: 32746690 -> 31217190
Candidates.#3....: 46301987 -> 47954450
Candidates.#4....: 84160430 -> 83519010
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Temp: 66c Fan: 75% Util: 96% Core:1860MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:1
Hardware.Mon.#2..: Temp: 69c Fan: 79% Util: 96% Core:1746MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:1
Hardware.Mon.#3..: Temp: 70c Fan: 80% Util: 96% Core:1733MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:1
Hardware.Mon.#4..: Temp: 71c Fan: 81% Util: 96% Core:1771MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:1

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