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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 6 from 2 users
Re: "Broken" private key.
by
nc50lc
on 17/11/2022, 08:13:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,ETFbitcoin (2)
No software would take the private key in (tried a dozen), and trying a WiF decoder showed it's invalid (even though it "looks" right, starts with 5K, right length, etc).
Let me guess, it's: 5Km2kuu7vtFDPpxywn4u3NLpbr5jKpTB3jsuDU2KYEqetwr388P, right?
I'm sorry to tell you that it's FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141e4770308 which is out of range.

Sadly, no one can recover those 3.7 BTC that your "friend" accumulated: 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh