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The normal sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... 12) results in the scammer's wallet.
However, the interleaved, 'chaotic' sequence (1, 7, 2, 8, 3, 9...) results in that third-party Bitcoin private key wallet.
Then, it's back to my my first and second reply. (
if the two combinations derive different wallets)
Some additional pointers and a repeat of the important ones:
- The seed
that is in posted in public, you can't just expect it to be empty even if the combinations are wrong.
Before you even attempted to restore it, people had experimented on it or read it wrong like you did. - You can restore it Electrum but not in other BIP39 wallets because Electrum doesn't prevent it to be restored/created even with bad BIP39 checksum.
- Using the same set of words doesn't necessarily mean that it should be exclusively restore that same wallet, no, it can be used to restore a different wallet if the conditions are right.
Example1: If you managed to create another combination with a correct checksum, you'll even be able to restore it to other clients aside from Electrum.
Example2: If the checksum isn't correct, you'll still be able to restore it to Electrum but not on other clients. - Under the hood, Electrum passes those words on a PBKDF2 function (HMAC-SHA512) to create the binary seed which where the private keys of the wallet is based from.
Given the examples above, you'll restore a different wallet withusing different combinations since the input youit feed on the PBKDF2 function is different...
But it's not even necessary to understand that a publicly posted words shouldn't be expected to be unused
Because the owner or someone else already restored that to Electrum using that same combination and used it to receive and send bitcoins.