Quote from: pooya87 on April 18, 2021, 06:33:58 AM

You are already searching an impossible to find needle in a haystack so why are you making your own job harder by doing the search using the HD key derivation function? Why not just search for private keys and avoid all the extra overhead of the key derivation?!
If you were able to find a private key to steal other people's money (which you would never be able to) it doesn't matter if that key was derived from a master key or was found at random.

It is like wanting to find z from x+y=z but instead of first adding x and y you go ahead and compute pow, sqr, sqrt, cos, sin, sin^-1,... of both x and y then finally add x and y to find z.

Hi Pooya87,

Just so I can steal some knowledge from you. Does this mean that even if I find a HD key (xprv) it might not be the master xprv of a wallet but the xprv of an address that could be way down the hierarchy of addresses in a particular wallet? My initial concept was to try and find Wallets rather than just addresses.