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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scroogey 21h \ on: Puzzle: There's 1 Million Sats In This Image bitcoin
Added a passphrase generator and test script (requires KeePassXC) to the tools:
./phrases.py | ./brute.sh
you+hidden+cAn+solve
you+hidden+solve+cAn
solve+cAn+you+hidden
solve+cAn+hidden+you
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There are 40 words on the card. The lesson suggests 9 rules (one cannot be followed, missing the birth-year).
Picking 4-5 words out of 40 and 2-3 rules out of 9 would take 7411 years to test.
If you pick only 4 words and use only the first two rules, it takes 89 days.
You can try your own hunches/ideas by modifying the word list or the rules in phrases.py.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @bartoli 15h
Slide 21 of 'what is bitcoin' has 7 seed words in the background of the video, but those are probably unrelated
I tried a script looping for combinations that start with abstract and end with those, but stopped after a while of not finding any combination where the last word would be a correct checksum of the rest
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 15h
You mean the aware, interest, consider, trial, satisfy on the pages sticking to the glass (reversed) in
but the sixth reads like loyalty to me, which isn't a BIP39 word?
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT OP 20h
https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
You might be able to speed up trying these possibilities using this software.
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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 19h
It can generate passphrase candidates using more advanced rules. But it doesn't speed up the testing (about one try every five seconds) for the KeePass file.
But many of the words on the card are actually in the BIP39 word list. It's possible that the KeePass file does not contain the private key of the Bitcoin address. But instead further hints, required to build the seed phrase of BIP39 words. btcrecover can help check seed phrase candidates by comparing generated addresses with the prize address (which we know). You can also do this manually with e.g. Electrum (Create New Wallet, Standard wallet, I already have a seed, Options, BIP39 seed, enter candidate, Detect Existing Accounts).
The reason I think BIP39 is not out of the question is that the puzzle author has posted on X in the past about helping a friend recover a partial BIP39 seed phrase.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT OP 19h
It's out of my skill range. I just thought you could program it to test all possibilities of those words for the passphrase. Paying for GPU'S might speed up the process too. Or it might end up costing more than the prize...
Good luck, I'm impressed by your perseverance!
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