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Solving a list of private key.

Open arthurwolf opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

I'm trying to help a friend recover their lost BTC wallet. So far I have:

  • A file with a million possible private keys in WIF format (they used a bit of a weird method to generate their wallet, but we know for sure it's one of those keys).
  • The month during which BTC was sent to that wallet (known for certain, but not more precise than this).

(I do not have any address associated to the wallet, but from what I understand, with the month, I can get a list/database of possible addresses)

Is there any way I can get btcrecover to help me here?

I can only find docs for passwords and "seeds"/lists of words, but nothing for trying to test/figure out from lists of private keys.

I imagine that internally, btcrecover does generate a list of possible private keys, and tests them, am I wrong?

Is there some way to "skip" the password/seed generation part?

I'd be fine with editing code, I'm just looking for any advice/help.

Thanks a lot in advance!

arthurwolf avatar Jul 07 '22 16:07 arthurwolf

You can use the feature to solve raw private keys as demonstrated here: https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Usage_Examples/basic_password_recoveries/#raw-private-keys

This won't work this this repository, but will need to use my updated fork which has the feature.

3rdIteration avatar Jul 18 '22 10:07 3rdIteration