I was severely robbed back in August. I was running a successful business that was helping lots of people, and I got raided by thieves who robbed my house blind of most of it's cash. Slightly before that, perhaps a week or 2 earlier, I was getting hacked by thieves so I quickly transferred all of my Bitcoins off of Blockchain and onto Bitcoin Core (Version 25).

I was in such a panic that I forgot the password as soon as I set it. After the robberies took most of my cash out of my house, this Bitcoin is most of my lifesavings, and I just need to remember the password and I'll be able to provide properly for my family, for my wife and 11 children.

I've been running BTCRecover and have crunched through millions of passwords already, based on what I remember of the password. I tried installing Hashcat, but have been unsuccessful so far.

I know I am an inefficient amateur, and I need help from the the real cryptographers here who know how to do brute force cracks. With the password memories/hints I have, and the knowledge of experts on Bitcointalk, I'm sure it'll work out.

I also have the wallet.dat, and the original computer that the Bitcoin Core is running on, and I definitely need help figuring out all the vectors of extracting/recovering my private keys. Maybe there's other ways besides just brute forcing the password. (Maybe there's keyloggers installed on the mac and I can recover my keystrokes from when this happened?) -- (Maybe the wallet.dat isn't as impenetrable as said, and it is possible to get private keys?)

I am pissed off that Bitcoin Core didn't have straightforward access to displaying the private key so I can physically write it down. So I couldn't do things correctly. It's absolutely ridiculous. I still can't figure out how to dump private keys from the console whether it's unlocked or not. This serious flaw in the newer Bitcoin Cores led to my huge loss, to be honest. I wasn't prepared for Bitcoin Core to have lost this functionality right when I needed it the most.

Please help. I trust in God that I'll get this money back so I can properly provide for my wife and 11 children and the ever-increasing amount of grandchildren. This is a life and death difference for my family if I can just access my Bitcoins. Please help. God bless you.