Re: Missing 10 Characters in WIF Private Key

It has a difficulty of log2(58**10) = 58.5798 bits, this is doable if you have a few GPUs.

If there is an outgoing transaction, then with the un/compressed public key and kangaroo or pollard, also possible.

Sadly this was an offline wallet, so it only ever had incoming transaction. It has never sent out.

So that would be very easy. ~60 missing bits, we would have the private key within minutes.

Really? I thought with 10 missing characters that was 58^10th or a large number and it was going to take centuries to solve this. How exactly do I solve this in minutes? What tool should I use, or is there something custom? I am willing to pay a bounty for someone assisting me to set this up on machine.

We don't have an outgoing transaction, so we can't do it with pollard or kangaroo.

You said above that we could do it in minutes. Is that not possible now since we don't have any outgoing TXs?

Thanks,
S.