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There are 50 words. At that time I was using an Electrum version that is years old now. Maybe around 2012? Definitely nothing newer, -snip-
Theoretically, you can create an non-standard old Electrum seed phrase with higher number words by using very old Electrum's "mnemonic.py" script with a very long seed (Hex, 3 words per 32-bit)E.g. in v0.30's mnemonic.py:
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But you can't use that in old nor new Electrum clients, it's not the accepted "old_seed" format.
I doubt that it's an old Electrum seed if it isn't 12 words.
Unfortunately, I no longer have a solution to my pattern, but the required words are here.
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A bit of background to the question: I accumulated Bitcoin many years ago and then moved away from Bitcoin due to my job, life and other circumstances.
I have lost my wallets but I am currently working on a solution and looking for access as I still have found something I forgot about in my house.
If I find access to my wallet, I want to use Coinjoin because I don't want the recipient of my transaction to know the original balance of my wallet.
Since I haven't been involved with Bitcoin for a long time, I have no idea about the current technical circumstances, but I came across an article reporting that Arkham Intelligence has developed algorithms and patterns to completely deanonymize transactions, even Coinjoins.
Can anyone tell me if this is true and what the current technical status is?
I have lost my wallets but I am currently working on a solution and looking for access as I still have found something I forgot about in my house.
If I find access to my wallet, I want to use Coinjoin because I don't want the recipient of my transaction to know the original balance of my wallet.
Since I haven't been involved with Bitcoin for a long time, I have no idea about the current technical circumstances, but I came across an article reporting that Arkham Intelligence has developed algorithms and patterns to completely deanonymize transactions, even Coinjoins.
Can anyone tell me if this is true and what the current technical status is?
I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here, I have written them down in a pattern that I can't remember. Only with the right pattern can I put the words in the right order.
There should be 12 valid ones.
Recovery through brute force is only possible if the search space is small enough that can be checked within reasonable time. There should be 12 valid ones.
So the first step is to shrink that search space as much as possible. So for example you have to first figure out how many words you actually have. Why is it a big range (30 to 50) instead of a fixed value?! Just count them already...
Then start checking them against a word list trying to eliminate invalid ones to reduce that search space.
But to do that, you first need to figure out how you created the mnemonic in first place. Although there is a popular and most used word-list standardized by BIP-39[1] but other wallets like Electrum, blockchain.info, etc. have used different word lists and algorithms in the past.
Knowing the wallet/tool used is also necessary to know the mnemonic algorithm when recovering your keys. After all you have to derive the child key to check if it is valid.
It would also help if you knew the version of that wallet/tool that you used. For example Electrum has changed its algorithm 2 times if I'm not mistaken. Knowing the year or version of it would help narrow down the algorithm.
[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md
P.S. of course if you have "bought" this from some random user on the internet telling you it holds a treasure, you most probably threw your money away and are also wasting other people's time who would try to help you.
It gone because if mixing wallet mnemonic seed and many random words which are not wallet mnemonic seed words.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but nope, OP said that it's all words from mnemonic wordlist. He basically failed to document his own obfuscation or correct pattern how to find his mnemonic wallet recovery words in his grid of words.Maybe his recovery words are at prime number positions in his extended list of words or something similar, like jumping like a chess bishop on a grid of words. Possibilities are vast and I always wonder why people invent something but fail to document it. Because one thing is for sure: you will forget whatever you invented when you don't use or repeat it regularly.
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Loss due to complexity / not being able to restore from backup
Complex your wallet back up will not make your back up safer but more risk of failure in recovery later.
Whatever you do, you should verify if you can successfully recover your wallet(s). If you have your non-standard procedure(s) only in your head, it's almost guaranteed you will forget something and shoot yourself in your foot. Don't do this, apply KISS principles!
I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here
What an odd way to describe how many words you have.I don't really remember what I was thinking exactly to invent this kind of puzzle but at that point I found it quite fascinating that there are so many individual ways to store Bitcoin, a bit adventurous.
I have a few questions.
- How many words do you have written on the paper. Please count them. Is it 30? Is it 50? Is it some other number?
- Is there any pattern to how they are written? Alphabetical? Length (number of letters)? Vertical list? Horizontal, comma separated? Around the circumfrence of a circle? Something else?
- How many bitcoins will you gain access to once you solve this puzzle?
- Do you have/know any of the Bitcoin addresses associated with the puzzle?
- How much did you pay to purchase this puzzle? Where did you buy it? How did the seller contact you
- I have 50 words.
- These words are not written in any particular pattern, but I have highlighted some of them with a pencil. But the marked words are more than 24, so it doesn't make sense and I can't imagine that I thought it made sense at the time, it wouldn't be a puzzle. If I remember correctly, the seed only consists of 12 words.
- I have several addresses and I don't know which address this puzzle leads to but I have an overview of all my addresses from that time. Each address holds enough Bitcoin to make you tear your hair out.
- I didn't buy this puzzle, I made it myself on a piece of quality paper using my own pattern and wrote a card to solve it, somehow like this.
Now I only have the part that contains the words, without knowing the pattern to read the valid words.
I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here
What an odd way to describe how many words you have. Either way, this is futile, you have a better chance of brute-forcing your Electrum wallet from your other post.Years ago I had a lot of Bitcoin that I doomed and I've lost bitcoin in various ways. In the beginning, Bitcoin was more like a game to me, like modern CS:GO skins that you can collect and trade.
Now I have found a self-made puzzle of one of my seeds. I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here, I have written them down in a pattern that I can't remember. Only with the right pattern can I put the words in the right order.
So I definitely have the valid words, I just can't remember which ones they were.
Is there any chance of finding the words and putting them in the right order? The valid words should definitely be included.
There should be 12 valid ones.
I'll have to solve it myself, because I'm not going to let it out of my hands.
(I posted this topic in the wrong section before, I need to get it moved somehow)
Now I have found a self-made puzzle of one of my seeds. I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here, I have written them down in a pattern that I can't remember. Only with the right pattern can I put the words in the right order.
So I definitely have the valid words, I just can't remember which ones they were.
Is there any chance of finding the words and putting them in the right order? The valid words should definitely be included.
There should be 12 valid ones.
I'll have to solve it myself, because I'm not going to let it out of my hands.
(I posted this topic in the wrong section before, I need to get it moved somehow)
Years ago I had a lot of bitcoin that I doomed and I've lost bitcoin in various ways. In the beginning, bitcoin was more like a game to me, like CS:GO skins that you can collect and trade.
Now I have found a self-made puzzle of one of my seeds. I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here, I have written them down in a pattern that I can't remember. Only with the right pattern can I put the words in the right order.
So I definitely have the valid words, I just can't remember which ones they were.
Is there any chance of finding the words and putting them in the right order? The valid words should definitely be included.
There should be 12 valid ones.
I'll have to solve it myself, because I'm not going to let it out of my hands.
Now I have found a self-made puzzle of one of my seeds. I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here, I have written them down in a pattern that I can't remember. Only with the right pattern can I put the words in the right order.
So I definitely have the valid words, I just can't remember which ones they were.
Is there any chance of finding the words and putting them in the right order? The valid words should definitely be included.
There should be 12 valid ones.
I'll have to solve it myself, because I'm not going to let it out of my hands.
Lately you hear very bullish scenarios as US states vote on reserves, institutions adopt bitcoin and more and more big corporations and players want to use bitcoin but apart from extreme anti bitcoin players you don't really hear a bearish scenario at the moment.
What do you think about a bear market? Could it reach us? What do users who have been following bitcoin for a long time say about a potential bear market? What is the current pattern and what are the important indicators?
Are we in a bullish stimulus overload right now?
What do you think about a bear market? Could it reach us? What do users who have been following bitcoin for a long time say about a potential bear market? What is the current pattern and what are the important indicators?
Are we in a bullish stimulus overload right now?
We can generate our own private keys with the specified parameters in multiple ways. Manual methods such as Rolling dice ny converting the results into binary and derive the bitcoin address from it or using the python script.
Hmmm... I think I do understand the concept now. Before now I've actually come across other methods of private key generation but now I get the concept why some generation approaches are safer than others. Basically what it simply means is that the OP generated his keys with an algorithm with a lower entropy than regular key generation processes. Quote
I made my calculations for this scenario but in anyway with or without the lowercase it is impossible to break even if the entropy is around 103 bits.
Exactly but I think that means that although OP's entropy of 3640 in contrast to 6240 is of lower difficulty, still the difference in security level is almost same since both can't be brute forced.I have apparently split the password for these files into 2 files, it looks like. I didn't remember that either
Here is my old thread, I asked something similar. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5523791.0
Years ago I doomed my Bitcoin. I searched every device and USB from back then and found something.
I have split it into 2 different files. It is 40 characters long, machine-generated and consists only of capital letters and numbers. Unfortunately, I can only find the first file.
I have the first 20 characters. Any chance of guessing the last 20 characters because it consists only of capital letters and numbers?
If it were possible, I could perhaps rent a server. I don't want someone else to do this because I don't want to give away the wallet files. I think you can understand that.
I have split it into 2 different files. It is 40 characters long, machine-generated and consists only of capital letters and numbers. Unfortunately, I can only find the first file.
I have the first 20 characters. Any chance of guessing the last 20 characters because it consists only of capital letters and numbers?
If it were possible, I could perhaps rent a server. I don't want someone else to do this because I don't want to give away the wallet files. I think you can understand that.
I am currently finding out more about altcoins. Let's say there is an altcoin with a market capitalization of USD 250 million.
A fork of this altcoin is created that is better, actually offers a general usecase for many people and on which a new ecosystem is built.
Is there a psychological price border that the altcoin fork can never surpass the market capitalization of the original altcoin? No matter how much more useful, adapted, better the fork is?
A fork of this altcoin is created that is better, actually offers a general usecase for many people and on which a new ecosystem is built.
Is there a psychological price border that the altcoin fork can never surpass the market capitalization of the original altcoin? No matter how much more useful, adapted, better the fork is?
So this is some kind of a very important question to me since I lost access to my Bitcoin funds many years ago and I don‘t want to lose anything else again.
I am using a Ledger for my Ethereum. I created a Ethereum account with the Ledger live desktop software, connected the Ledger with MetaMask and got myself Ethereum addresses.
I am holding Ethereum since a long time ago too and I keep buying some Ethereum for Web3 activity I am using a address for a EVM compatible chain too. So I use 3 addresses.
That means I have 3 Ethereum addresses in Meta Mask generated with my Ledger device. The first Ethereum address is the one matches with the Ledger live account address and is holding my EVM compatible coins. Since it‘s not Ethereum, Ledger live does not see a balance within the Ethereum Account. The second one is for buying and the third one is holding my legacy Ethereum.
Let‘s say my Ledger stops working, I am buying a new one and revover the Ledger with my seedphrase which I of course keep care of. I am installing the Ethereum app and I recover my Ethereum account.
Will Ledger recover the same Ethereum account I created the Meta Mask addrsses with or will Ledger create a empty new one, since Ledger live can not see balances?
I am using a Ledger for my Ethereum. I created a Ethereum account with the Ledger live desktop software, connected the Ledger with MetaMask and got myself Ethereum addresses.
I am holding Ethereum since a long time ago too and I keep buying some Ethereum for Web3 activity I am using a address for a EVM compatible chain too. So I use 3 addresses.
That means I have 3 Ethereum addresses in Meta Mask generated with my Ledger device. The first Ethereum address is the one matches with the Ledger live account address and is holding my EVM compatible coins. Since it‘s not Ethereum, Ledger live does not see a balance within the Ethereum Account. The second one is for buying and the third one is holding my legacy Ethereum.
Let‘s say my Ledger stops working, I am buying a new one and revover the Ledger with my seedphrase which I of course keep care of. I am installing the Ethereum app and I recover my Ethereum account.
Will Ledger recover the same Ethereum account I created the Meta Mask addrsses with or will Ledger create a empty new one, since Ledger live can not see balances?
Many years ago I doomed my Bitcoin and lost access to them. I have nothing left besides the locked Electrum file, a locked Zip Archive containing my private keys in plain text and my public key. I am tearing my hair out for years now. I thought I was safe if I create multiple types of storage. The Zip Archive and the Electrum file have different passwords too if I remember it right. The seed is also in my Zip file since I thought I can just save it on many USBs instead of a paper. The risk of one USB failing wouldn‘t bother me. I also thought I can somehow prove ownership with my public key since you can not get it unless the wallet has a spending transaction. I didn‘t know what I was thinking. I was never really technical into Bitcoin. Like a guy who uses a smartphone but doesn‘t now how it looks inside.
No need to judge me, it was a stupid idea to save it that way but it was also more like a gimmick to me. I believed in Bitcoin and I never throwed anything away although its locked. I saved my stuff on so many USBs.
I know a guy who is a bit technical and he told me that there might be a small chance that a security flow will be discovered since I created my wallet with a early version of electrum and the locked Zip Archive was also created around this time.
What do you guys think? Do you think there will ever be a security flow within the implementation of the Zip encryption or early versions of Electrum?
Of course I am award of scammers and I will not hand out my files to anyone.
No need to judge me, it was a stupid idea to save it that way but it was also more like a gimmick to me. I believed in Bitcoin and I never throwed anything away although its locked. I saved my stuff on so many USBs.
I know a guy who is a bit technical and he told me that there might be a small chance that a security flow will be discovered since I created my wallet with a early version of electrum and the locked Zip Archive was also created around this time.
What do you guys think? Do you think there will ever be a security flow within the implementation of the Zip encryption or early versions of Electrum?
Of course I am award of scammers and I will not hand out my files to anyone.