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Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Merits 13 from 5 users
Re: Private Key recovery from WIF format
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ETFbitcoin
on 06/01/2022, 11:53:59 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,hugeblack (4) ,Pmalek (2) ,malevolent (2) ,RickDeckard (1)
If the public key of your address isn't known and that address doesn't hold lots of Bitcoin, i would advice you to preserve your paper wallet and make additional backup (address, WIF and position of missing char in the WIF). In future CPU/GPU will be faster and hopefully Bitcoin price will rise so it might be worth to attempt brute-force.



With data from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4453897.msg55552855#msg55552855 and https://vast.ai/, here's rough cost estimation using single RTX 2080 Ti at cost $0.332/hour

Code:
58^11 / 631.57 MKeys/s
= 24986644000165537792 / 631570000
= 39562746805.84185 second
= 10989651.89 hours

Code:
10989651.89 * $0.332 = $3,648,564.4 (about 87 BTC when i write this post)