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Re: Missing 10 Characters in WIF Private Key - Can I recover them?
by
cyptomania
on 05/05/2023, 04:20:38 UTC
@NotATether is helping @soferox
Update:

The OP has since identified two of the unknown WIF characters at the end. We managed to get Bitcrack running on his two GTX 1070's searching for the remaining 8 characters at a combined speed of 400Mkeys/s, over Discord.  The estimated runtime is 16 days. Hopefully, it turns up with his lost WIF.
And then he answers, after I had said, that they are searching it there https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404406.0, where is a link to the challenge https://github.com/phrutis/wif500 and there you can see the damaged paper:
Suppose you do find the coins (which actually belong to @soferox) - how will you return them to him?
I thought that he would know it.


No, you were the first who said that two problems are connected, while they are not:
Are you sure that they are not?

@soferox
Can you give us an answer?