Gave the whole wallet/btc quest a rest for a few months. Its back on the news again here in Australia so which is annoying.

Found this post the other day which describes the process I used to generate the wallet. Definitley skipped a "randomness generator" but no recollection of using a / then password. No mention of 78 words either (which may have just been the minimum in the guide I was following).

My guess is the bitcoinbrainwallet website that was shutdown may have been used.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1719563.0

Will post more of what I found when I get sometime.

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Used the two programs that were sent to me using 8 words & a password. Tried multiple configurations of the 8 words & also the password then checked address on q blockchain explorer but the whole time something just didn't seem right.

https://ibb.co/kVMcHG5h

https://ibb.co/7JqsGx6n


Investigated brainwallets further till I came across this site. Decided to test a random series of 8 words plus password in the two programs & the website to see if I could get an address match which was a fail.

For the test I used...

Password - Password12345???
Passphrase - the long lost quest for bitcoin continues fml

https://brainwallet.io/

https://ibb.co/cST4kjxv


That particular website generated a "private address" & more importantly a "secret key" which to me seems very interesting. That might be the 64 bit hexidecimal I was banging on about in my orginal post.


I decided to go deeper down the orginal post rabbit focusung on "base58" & sure enough found evidence that brainwallets were created early on using base58 & sort sort of checksum. Also found an old guide to creating bitcoin addresses (will post that when I find it again).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258678.0


Also another post where someone successfully regenerated a BIP38 brainwallet using similar methodology.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5497667.0;all


Longstory short BTC has doubled, tax on BTC in Australia may change very soon & I still have no fucking idea what im doing. 😂😂😂

Gave the whole wallet/btc quest a rest for a few months. Its back on the news again here in Australia so which is annoying.

Found this post the other day which describes the process I used to generate the wallet. Definitley skipped a "randomness generator" but no recollection of using a / then password. No mention of 7 words either (which may have just been the minimum in the guide I was following).

My guess is the bitcoinbrainwallet website that was shutdown may have been used.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1719563.0