Yes, I fucked up. I've got the private key but is something wrong. I have transcribed it and there are some characters wrong because it gives me an error. I don't have the qr, only the letters and numbers, it's not compressed so it begins with a 5 and have 51 characters. Is there any way to try all the combinations possible of the 51 characters?
Is there any way to try all the combinations possible of the 51 characters?
You don't have to try all combinations. You can start with the most probable ones first.
For example, you can start by only assuming you made a single error. Private keys are usually encoded in base58 afaik, so every letter could have been any of these 58 characters. Generally, you could even go farther and check for "common typos" first. However, since base58 explicitly excludes letters which may be mistaken for other letters, I don't think that makes sense. There shouldn't be any common typos from reading or transcribing a private key encoded in base58.
So in your case, I would first try to change a single letter. If that doesn't work, try combinations of two letters etc.
Good luck.
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Yes, that's what I am going to do when I have some free time. Al I wanna know is if is some way to do it faster with the PC.
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Use a good PC or write code that runs on your GPU.
That's all I can think of
However hopefully, speed won't matter in your case though. If you don't find it within hours with this method, you're probbaly not going to find it ever :/
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Any idea how can i do it with an app or someone that can help me with the code write? is like 32700 combinations possibles. i will pay with a bounty of course.
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Why are you storing the private key instead of the seedphrase? QR is an extra. Seedphrase is what's important.
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If I'm reading this right, 51 characters should take around 18 quadrillion-zillion years
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the phrase can only match a word list where all words were intentionally unique enough that it's hard to do this.
Yeah mate, you can chalk that one off as a loss, thats why we have seed phrases now, because too many people stuff up private keys. Unfortunately, those funds are now a burn wallet and you've removed a few sats from ever circulating
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Forget that account. That key is only to one address. Restore the whole wallet somewhere else with seedprase.
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1GsAFeF3S5Bt1JU6CjjAzNtfgnzoXkyUnh
the address
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You sure? If OP has a lot of information about his private key but there is just a single or not too many mistakes in it, there might be a chance, no?
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Yes, I have made the calculations and I have 289 possible combinations. So with patience I will find the correct one, I hope so.
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Let us know if you found it
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That’s really not too many
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well, i've made the calculations again that i have more time and.. its like 32768 combinations. How can i do it?
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Are you asking us to get the private key from an address?
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if you are willing to teach me how can i accomplish to try 32700 combinations yes, i will give you half of it.
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