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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Private Key missing 4 characters
by
larry_vw_1955
on 30/11/2021, 01:46:32 UTC
Hello people! I've been looking at the forum and seen that there are some ways to recover a private key that is missing some characters, it fed me hope and I'm trying to figure out a way for me to recover my private key.

Currently my private key has only 47 characters, but of the remaining characters, I'm not sure if the missing ones are the end, beginning or middle of the private key (I think it's the end), you know some algorithm you can try to generate a valid private key in my situation?

I have the software that recovers up to 6 characters from the private key

what i dont understand is how the private key ended up 4 characters short. that's really confusing. did they print it out and the printer messed up or ...i guess they wrote it down wrong on paper but that's kind of hard to believe. one mistake is undestandable but 4?