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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 19h \ parent \ on: Puzzle: There's 1 Million Sats In This Image bitcoin
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.
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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