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Re: Lifesavings stuck in Bitcoin Core, I forgot the password. Please help
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singlethread1
on 23/02/2025, 23:14:40 UTC
BTCRecover is definitely your best bet here. If I were you, I would combine it with a password generating tool such as cracken (https://github.com/shmuelamar/cracken) to generate a big list of possible passwords.

For example:
cracken --wordlist firstnames.txt --wordlist lastnames.lst --charset 'ABCDEFabcdefg' '?w1?w2?1?d?d?d'

this command would create a list of all possible combinations of:

Wordlist1 + Wordlist2 + One of these characters: ABCDEFabcdefg + A digit from 0-9 + A digit from 0-9 + A digit from 0-9