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Re: Missing 10 Characters in WIF Private Key - Can I recover them?
by
NotATether
on 03/01/2022, 16:18:49 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
~ remaining 8 characters at a combined speed of 400Mkeys/s, over Discord.  The estimated runtime is 16 days. ~
These numbers don't look correct.
With 8 missing characters it should take less than 4 days (1/4 the reported runtime) to check all permutations.
Code:
58^8= 128,063,081,718,016 / 400,000,000 k/s = 320,157 s = 3.7 days

That's because he wasn't sure that the "w" at the beginning of "Kw" was correct so he wanted to check Kw, Kx, Ky and Kz just to be sure.