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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: BTC address missing characters
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seoincorporation
on 20/02/2022, 19:01:57 UTC
Hi Guys i have 2 addresses not sure what the balance is, but i have the private key which begins with Letter K one has 49 characters and the other has 54 can anyone help?

For the 49 chars private key you need to know the position of the missing chars, if they are the last 3 ones then you can use a command like this:

Code:
bitcoin@host:~$ crunch 52 52 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -t 5KMWmYkn5YWkJnUDG4utD9L1HXQv3DBseqqCGsQXmthcEerbA@@@ -o pks.txt
Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 12631384 bytes
12 MB
0 GB
0 TB
0 PB
Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 238328

Then you can import all the private keys to a bitcoin core, that's how I would recover the coins, and if you don't know the position in the missing chars then you can forget about those coins, the number of combinations is really big in that scenario.