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Re: I REGAINED access to Bitcoins in my made-up brainwallet!
by
apogio
on 27/05/2024, 18:15:56 UTC
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I don't think anyone actually uses BIP38 anymore outside the collectibles community.
I think you're wrong, but can't prove it Wink

I could help proving this statement  Tongue
Now, seriously, were you doing an experiment (for fun) ?
Personally, if I used something like that, I would definitely keep the phrases in paper backups, without ever mentioning or stating they had anything to do with Bitcoin.

Simple brainwallets (by human standards) are in many cases fundamentally flawed which has been proven. You simply can't use anything that's online available as source for a simple brainwallet (simple in terms of taking only the SHA-256 of the source phrase as private key).

Or use my tool https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488789 (Only kidding of course!)