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Re: 12-word recovery phrase - LOST. 2k who can help
by
Casdinyard
on 11/09/2020, 12:53:29 UTC

There are 2048 words https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

I need to recover my 12 phrase recovery,

If ever that you would try to brute force it by looking up on the wordlists for possible combinations then turn each and every possible combinations to a binary then use BIP39 algorithm to get the private key (which you can still have now or not), you would simply get 2^132 which is 5.4445179e+39

The English wordlist for BIP 39 contains 2048 words, so in order to crack a 12-word phrase it would require figuring out 2048^12 = 2^132 possible combinations under a shield of 128-bit security.

If ever that you can remember even just the mnemonics, you can simply use https://iancoleman.io/bip39/? .



I might try doing this tomorrow just if ever I could crack it. I'll just send you a PM once I'm ready.