Is it possible to dig out a key hash from a previously backed up chrome extension files I managed to recover in hopes to find a private key or even the SP's ? I can see multiple .bundle files, manifest.json and various others if that helps. Thanks!
Hey mate, i trying to use the swap command with a btcdb from a certain period (1.10.2017 end date 1.1.2018) but i downloaded the db from your list but it seems the swap command cannot read from the DB Not sure what I’m doing wrong, Will you be kind to post me the command?
This has nothing to do with dependencies, it's simply about you having installed the wrong or old version somehow. Just follow the documentation and you will be fine.
Can I extract 24 seed words from Ledger . In case of its loss. Please note that I am a ledger device in good condition, I can withdraw and deposit assets with it. But the restoration words are missing
No, you should move your funds off the wallet, then reinitialize the ledger with a new seed If you are running without a backup, it's only a matter of time until the device fails without warning.
Border wallet should give you a standard 12 or 24 word mnemonic after being reconstituted, so can just be used with BTCRecover just like any other wallet.
I also wrote down my seed phrase out of order from a Cardanowallet. I use Gerowallet and it has a 15 word mnemonic. BTC recover assumes 12 or 24 words and also when I use the following prompt: python seedrecover[dot]py --mnemonic-length 15 --typos 0 --transform-wordswap 4. It still says: Using 12 worker threads. How can I change this?
Should be doable. If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/) If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN
Did you have multiple accounts with them? (By default only the first account is checked) Otherwise it sounds like there is either something else wrong with the seed or you are messing up the process. BTCRecover works fine with both Coinomi and Matamask.
@@CryptoGuide No, it's the first account and the wallet was just created. I used the provided example and only made changes to the address, wallet and seed phrase.
It's just BIP39 so will work fine, but from memory the v20 will have produced a 24 word seed, so if it's entirely scrambled, it's not possible to descramble it.
I have a Sui wallet and I lost the recovery phase and private keys I have re-installed the chrome extension of the wallet. So, is there any way you think that I would be able to get back access to the wallet?
Sounds like you have caused an unrecoverable loss. I'm sorry for your loss. Unless you have either the recovery seed or the chrome extension data then you are out of luck.
Firstly you can simply put it back into chrome and open the extension as per normal. (If you know the password) If you don't know the password then it may be possible to do with BTCRecover, but may also require the functionality to be added for that specific wallet. (So you would need to sponsor it or wait a few years and see if someone else does)
@@CryptoGuide if my recovery phase is stored locally on my older chrom data then can you please tell me where it could be stored considering it would be an encrypted form is there a way to decrypt it and retrieve it?
You don't need a quantum computer for that if you know the position of the words, it can be done today if the wallet is large enough to make it worthwhile. (So more than say $100,000 USD)
Hi Steve. Some advise please. I put ETH on a trezor back in 2018. I never touched the eth since then it was on myeth wallet. I had to do a software update to access the eth. I did the software update. Then recovered by seed. No history was coming up on my Trezor it was like a new wallet. That's problem number one problem number 2 is after the initial recovery from seed the same seed will not accept during a recovery back up or on a new trezor. Could I have erased the seed somehow. I will happily send eth to you if you can help fiqure this out with me . Thank you
@@CryptoGuide Definitely not a typo in the seed. I been trying almost a week now. I am just typing in the first few letters then hitting the correct one that trezor produces
i hope you read my comment, i have 24 seed phrases but all none of them are in order but they are correct, i also dont have the wallet address is it still possible to recover it from this way?
Unfortunately descrambling a 24 word seed isn't practical. This is due to the math involved, not a software limitation. Do you know the order of any of the words at all?
Great info, thanks much for sharing. I have a different problem I wounder if you can help with. Somewhere around the year 2019 I created paper BTC wallet and set it with a password. When I went to move the BTC to a trezor this year I found out that I must have mistyped a letter in the password wrong or something. I was wondering if I can do a search somehow on my computer to see what it was I did type back then? Can I do a search for certain letters I typed back then to find out what the whole password is? I am certain of some of the letters in the password but not all of them.
@@CryptoGuide Would I have to do anything different because the paper wallet with the password is a bip38 type instead of a bip39 type?. I do have the public and private keys but because I can't figure out the way I typed the password the private key is scrambled.
BTCRecover supports BIP38 password recovery, but you will need an intact copy of the encrypted private key and a pretty good idea of what the password is. Just read the documentation and it's covered there.
@@CryptoGuide, Thanks again for taking the time to reply. I'm not that computer savvy but I'll do my best to follow the instructions in your videos. I do have an intact copy of the encrypted private key and I do have a pretty good idea of what the password is. Honestly, I can't believe I can't figure it out. I must have accidently hit a wrong key when entering it but because I am sure I know what most of letters are I hope I can find the correct word. I know I used some caps and some lowercase letters and an @ symbol. I know where the @ symbol is in the word but I either accidently hit a wrong letter or I don't remember which letters are to be capitalized.
If you wipe and reinitialized it, yes. (But this will give a whole new set of addresses, etc, and you will need to manually move funds over from old to new)
Yep, it's covered in the videos on using BTCRecover for passphrase recovery. (And also in all the other videos for using BTCRecover for password recovery of any kind)
@@CryptoGuide Steve when i try to do steep 3 pip3 install i get all errors could not find a version that satisfies the requirement coincurve =17.0.0 thanks in advance for the help
I withdrew Ethereum currency from the Binance platform to Ledger's wallet and the Ethereum balance did not appear in my wallet. And I'm sure of the wallet address, can you help me
Ethereum uses the same address as Binance smart chain. Just follow my video on multichain block explorers... Basically this should be a straightforward recovery, no need to go entering seeds or anything like that.
Hey Abderrahmane Saidani, good to hear, feel free to shoot me a tip at www.reddit.com/user/Crypto-Guide/comments/czy13u/a_post_or_video_of_mine_was_helpful_feel_free_to/ :)
Hi, thanks for ur content 🙏 Is it still possible to access btc stored in a jaxx wallet ? Should I use standard bip39 ? Also have a problem with token list - it says „no such file or directory” but I did exactly like in the instruction - copied my txt file to the btcrecover folder. Am I missing sth ?
@@CryptoGuide I remember only 6 words of my 12 word phrase. 2 of them on exact position - the rest I can narrow to probably 20-30 words. Is there a chance to succeed ? About jaxx I understand that’s not a problem that they no longer function, right ?
Since there is no wrong passphrase, is just a different wallet how would an attacker using btc recover know which passphrase is correct without having information about the public key
Depending on the coin/chain you can just use an addressdb, so for things like Bitcoin the address isn't needed at all (And there is no performance penalty with this)@@jithagoat
Hey Steve, great videos. I was able to get the one word missing in my phrase but when I imported am seeing a totally new wallet. Where do I go from here. Please help
You just import the seed into the wallet you originally used and the funds will be there. It will tell you which derivation path it matched the address on, so if you are using a different software wallet it should be straightforward to debug so that you can see the funds.
If different seeds are giving you the same address then there is something extremely wrong withy our wallet software. (It probably has malware or something) BTCRecover works fine, so you can generate some test seeds with something like iancoleman.io/bip39/ to generate a test seed, verify that each seed is producing deferent addresses, then test these seeds and addresses with BTCRecover.
@@CryptoGuide I have no idea what im asking. Im pretty sure im not able to recover my wallet because i had accidently backed it up as a watch only wallet. But can i somehow get the private key generated for my address using the recovery passphrase if i only remember parts of it?
@@CryptoGuide The wallet is from 2013 and i think its a software that looked very similar to bitcoin core. And I just remember that I had to write lots of words at some point, probably for recovery purposes. And I dont really have any idea what im doing. I wish i would have had a mechanical drive back then because it is impossible to get the original wallet.dat from my ssd recovered. But in general would it actually be possible to get the key to the original wallet if you could guess your way to the words you chose for the seed. Or is the seed something else?
I am sure you have heard this question a million times, but I have to ask: In a case where you have your 24 words scrambled and you are trying to find the right order, does it mean btcrecover will work to the end of 24 to the power of 24 or does luck come into play and you get it say 5millionth try?
Scrambled 24 words aren't recoverable just due to the math. In terms of your specific question, BTCRecover is deterministic, so works through a given tokenlist in the same order every time.
It will, but won't directly use the wallet addresses..do you still have the xpub for the signer that was derived from the seed? (Or had you previously spent from the wallet and still have these txids)
@@CryptoGuide Thank you for responding, and I apologize for any grammatical errors; I am using a translator. I don't have access to the XPUB, but I have access to a read-only account, so I can see all the addresses and txids of incoming and outgoing transactions.
ciao Steve!!! I’m unsure if I’m your only Italian follower, but if so, I’m delighted to be! Just a curiosity: if you change the order of the 12 seed words (assuming you know the words), does the same mathematical principle apply as with the 24 words? Or, given the smaller number of attempts, is there a way to get it back?
I don't quite understand what you are asking, but this works the same for 12 word seeds. (And you can also just descramble all 12 words for a 12 word seed)
@@CryptoGuide Thank you for your response, Steve! Let me explain it better (I try). If I mix up the order of the 12 words and subsequently forget it, would I still be able to recover the wallet? From what I understand, it is not possible with a 24-word wallet. Therefore, I am wondering if the same impossibility applies here.
Hey Steve, your videos have been very helpful, thank you! Can I ask please - I have a SLIP-39 with one phrase complete and one phrase missing a word. I have no addresses but I have the password. Is it possible to recover? thank you
It should be straightforward as far as the math goes, but BTCRecover doesn't currently support this. (But it could be added if you wanted to sponsor it either directly or as a trusted recovery) In terms of not having an address, which coins/chains were you using with the wallet?
Is that because, it can correct for a misspelled word, and can use an ETH address list, but can't currently just try every one of the 1024 SLIP-39 words in the place of the word I'm missing? What if I just inserted a misspelled word in the place of the one I'm missing
It doesn't support testing/recovery of the SLIP39 recovery phrases, only recovery where you have a working SLIP39 quorum and have an issue with the passphrase. You can attampt to add a word by hand if you like, this will take a long time, especially if you don't know the position of the word. The recovery would be straightforward if the feature were sponsored and added to BTCRecover.
Not really, it would take thousands of years. Depending on how much computational power increases over the coming decades, it may be possible 50 years from now.
Hi dear friend I have the Tronlink wallet and have had it since 2020 with some Tron in it Unfortunately, I only have 9 of the 12 words of the mnemonic phases and I have lost 3 of them I request you to help me how to find the other 3 words If there is a cost, I will pay
If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/) If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN
If you are totally stuck then you can request a paid private session. Price, process, terms and a request form are here cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/
Great work Steve! Thanks for all your videos over my crypto journey I have been researching BTCrecover for my situation but I have some private questions/concerns I have Can I email you or DM on twitter or Discord?
If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/) If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN
What a fantastic channel!
Thanks, glad it helps :)
Very helpful video. Thank you for your work.
No worries :)
I forgot the start sequence, how many swaps do I need to write? I remember the order of 1 and 12 words
So is this a 12 word seed? If so just use the video for descrambling instead.
@@CryptoGuide yes, the phrase has 12 words, i just lost the order
Straightforward recovery, just follow my video on descrambling a seed
Hi, I have safepal wallet but lost phrases. Is it possible to retrieve phrases based on address?
No, if all you have is an address then unfortunately you have nothing.
hi if i loost address but have the phrase but still cant find my wallet what can i do ?
So are you saying that you have all your seed words? What wallet software/hardware were you using?
@@CryptoGuide solana in my case
Depending on what wallet software/hardware you were using Solana works fine with BTCRecover.
how to customise deviation path for solana blockhain .. please reply 😢😢
You currently can't
@CryptoGuide ooh shit
You could sponsor it if you like. What hardware or software where your using?
@@CryptoGuide software 🦢 please help me out
So why do you want to customise the derivation path anyway? Did you use some non-standard wallet or something?
Is it possible to dig out a key hash from a previously backed up chrome extension files I managed to recover in hopes to find a private key or even the SP's ? I can see multiple .bundle files, manifest.json and various others if that helps. Thanks!
If you have the chrome extension data, just follow my video on Metamask password recovery, it runs though the files you need
@CryptoGuide sorry mate I forgot to mention it's for a yoroi wallet
Yep, documentation for that is in the BTCRecover written documentation
@CryptoGuide Legend thank you I'll replied again with how it goes
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what about tether wallet? I did not see it in this video
Tether is just a token on other blockchains like Ethereum, so you just select whatever chain you had the tether on...
Please help me, whats command for dag coin / swapped seed? Thanks
Never heard of this alt, is it just a token on Eth or something or a BTC clone?
@@CryptoGuide thanks for the answer, yes the keys are similar to BIP 39 as BTC? Sorting I solved the mistake in the word.
Good job sorting it out
Hey mate, i trying to use the swap command with a btcdb from a certain period (1.10.2017 end date 1.1.2018) but i downloaded the db from your list but it seems the swap command cannot read from the DB
Not sure what I’m doing wrong,
Will you be kind to post me the command?
The rest command if the same regardless of whether using an address or addressdb. Just start with the demo commands and adjust from there.
Hello Steve, my --transform-wordswaps argument throws an unrecognized error.
I've reinstalled my requirements, but still nothing.
Just start with copying and pasting the usage examples from the written docco for this type of recovery and just tweak from there.
@@CryptoGuide did this, but i still get an error "unrecognized arguments: --transform-wordswaps 2"
Then it sounds like you have either installed BTCRecover from a different repository or downloaded an old version.
@@CryptoGuide Alright then, I'll reinstall and make sure all dependencies are installed properly
This has nothing to do with dependencies, it's simply about you having installed the wrong or old version somehow. Just follow the documentation and you will be fine.
Can I extract 24 seed words from Ledger . In case of its loss. Please note that I am a ledger device in good condition, I can withdraw and deposit assets with it. But the restoration words are missing
No, you should move your funds off the wallet, then reinitialize the ledger with a new seed
If you are running without a backup, it's only a matter of time until the device fails without warning.
@@CryptoGuide Thank you .On the advice of
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Can i find my private key from this software or seed pharase of my wallet? I just have the adress but no key or seed pharase.
Can i recover it?
If all you have is an address then you have nothing.
How much time does it take when you don't know the adress used? Ie you have to scan Blockchain non empty utxo...
No real performance penalty, as the blockchain data is pre-processed and the address hashes loaded into your RAM.
What about border wallet
Border wallet should give you a standard 12 or 24 word mnemonic after being reconstituted, so can just be used with BTCRecover just like any other wallet.
I also wrote down my seed phrase out of order from a Cardanowallet. I use Gerowallet and it has a 15 word mnemonic. BTC recover assumes 12 or 24 words and also when I use the following prompt: python seedrecover[dot]py --mnemonic-length 15 --typos 0 --transform-wordswap 4. It still says: Using 12 worker threads. How can I change this?
When you say out of order, did you totally scramble it or just swap a few pairs of words?
You can also just force --mnemonic-length
@@CryptoGuide I think 4 words. I'm not a programmer so i don't know how to force it :o
Should be doable.
If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/)
If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN
Seed is always not found when using an ETH wallet, is there any solution? i just scrambled 2 word
Which wallet software did you use to create the eth wallet?
@@CryptoGuide coinomi and metamask
Did you have multiple accounts with them? (By default only the first account is checked)
Otherwise it sounds like there is either something else wrong with the seed or you are messing up the process. BTCRecover works fine with both Coinomi and Matamask.
@@CryptoGuide No, it's the first account and the wallet was just created.
I used the provided example and only made changes to the address, wallet and seed phrase.
In that case you are either messing up the process or have something else wrong with your seed.
Please is it possible that the same scanned address can go to different address, I’m losing my money, can you kindly help me out please
What does this even mean? Did you send funds on the wrong blockchain or can you see transactions moving funds out that you didn't initiate?
Its possible do this on SecuX V20? i know the words but dont remember order.
It's just BIP39 so will work fine, but from memory the v20 will have produced a 24 word seed, so if it's entirely scrambled, it's not possible to descramble it.
I have the paper with the order, but when I did it, I swapped one word for another, and I forgot which one I swapped.
Then just follow the process in this video, it will recover it no problem
I have a Sui wallet and I lost the recovery phase and private keys I have re-installed the chrome extension of the wallet. So, is there any way you think that I would be able to get back access to the wallet?
Sounds like you have caused an unrecoverable loss. I'm sorry for your loss.
Unless you have either the recovery seed or the chrome extension data then you are out of luck.
@@CryptoGuide Let's say if I have chrome extension data, can you please brief me about how I can recover the details?
Firstly you can simply put it back into chrome and open the extension as per normal. (If you know the password)
If you don't know the password then it may be possible to do with BTCRecover, but may also require the functionality to be added for that specific wallet. (So you would need to sponsor it or wait a few years and see if someone else does)
@@CryptoGuide if my recovery phase is stored locally on my older chrom data then can you please tell me where it could be stored considering it would be an encrypted form is there a way to decrypt it and retrieve it?
Yep, but if you uninstalled it then you wiped the local copy. (And caused an unrecoverable loss if you don't have a seed backup)
Hello Steve, great job!
Is it possible to recover 4 missing out words of 12 words phrase with the computing power of a quantum computer?
You don't need a quantum computer for that if you know the position of the words, it can be done today if the wallet is large enough to make it worthwhile. (So more than say $100,000 USD)
@@CryptoGuidelike how much time on m1 using --min-typos? using --skip too I guess
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Hi Steve. Some advise please. I put ETH on a trezor back in 2018. I never touched the eth since then it was on myeth wallet. I had to do a software update to access the eth. I did the software update. Then recovered by seed. No history was coming up on my Trezor it was like a new wallet. That's problem number one problem number 2 is after the initial recovery from seed the same seed will not accept during a recovery back up or on a new trezor. Could I have erased the seed somehow. I will happily send eth to you if you can help fiqure this out with me . Thank you
Sounds like you have a typo in your seed. Do you still have the address that lets you check on a block explorer that the funds haven't moved?
@@CryptoGuide Definitely not a typo in the seed. I been trying almost a week now. I am just typing in the first few letters then hitting the correct one that trezor produces
@@CryptoGuide where could I get that address if my original wallet is not opening please
That doesn't mean anything in terms of knowing whether or not it's a typo...
Did you buy the crypto on an exchange or something like that? If so then just look at the address that you used to withdraw it.
i hope you read my comment, i have 24 seed phrases but all none of them are in order but they are correct, i also dont have the wallet address is it still possible to recover it from this way?
Unfortunately descrambling a 24 word seed isn't practical. This is due to the math involved, not a software limitation.
Do you know the order of any of the words at all?
Great info, thanks much for sharing. I have a different problem I wounder if you can help with. Somewhere around the year 2019 I created paper BTC wallet and set it with a password. When I went to move the BTC to a trezor this year I found out that I must have mistyped a letter in the password wrong or something. I was wondering if I can do a search somehow on my computer to see what it was I did type back then? Can I do a search for certain letters I typed back then to find out what the whole password is? I am certain of some of the letters in the password but not all of them.
BTCRecover works with paper wallets, so you can try that if the password is mostly correct.
@@CryptoGuide I will give it a try, thanks for taking the time to reply.
@@CryptoGuide Would I have to do anything different because the paper wallet with the password is a bip38 type instead of a bip39 type?. I do have the public and private keys but because I can't figure out the way I typed the password the private key is scrambled.
BTCRecover supports BIP38 password recovery, but you will need an intact copy of the encrypted private key and a pretty good idea of what the password is.
Just read the documentation and it's covered there.
@@CryptoGuide, Thanks again for taking the time to reply. I'm not that computer savvy but I'll do my best to follow the instructions in your videos. I do have an intact copy of the encrypted private key and I do have a pretty good idea of what the password is. Honestly, I can't believe I can't figure it out. I must have accidently hit a wrong key when entering it but because I am sure I know what most of letters are I hope I can find the correct word. I know I used some caps and some lowercase letters and an @ symbol. I know where the @ symbol is in the word but I either accidently hit a wrong letter or I don't remember which letters are to be capitalized.
Can we change our seed and private key of our wallet?
If you wipe and reinitialized it, yes. (But this will give a whole new set of addresses, etc, and you will need to manually move funds over from old to new)
Hey Steve, thanks for this video. Can you still add, "---no eta" on this one?
Yep
Good video Steve. Do you have any videos on Trezor passphrase recovery? Thanks in advance
Yep, it's covered in the videos on using BTCRecover for passphrase recovery. (And also in all the other videos for using BTCRecover for password recovery of any kind)
@@CryptoGuide Steve when i try to do steep 3 pip3 install i get all errors could not find a version that satisfies the requirement coincurve =17.0.0
thanks in advance for the help
Just try jump back to the previous version of python and it will probably be fine. (So python 3.10)
@@CryptoGuide I’ll try it. Thanks
I just tried it same thing. I checked python it is the same one that you were using 3.8 and I get the same error
I withdrew Ethereum currency from the Binance platform to Ledger's wallet and the Ethereum balance did not appear in my wallet. And I'm sure of the wallet address, can you help me
You likely just sent it on Binance Smart Chain, just install the Binance smart chain app and add an account it and your funds will likely be there.
@@CryptoGuide I sent it to an Ethereum address .In a ledger wallet
Ethereum uses the same address as Binance smart chain. Just follow my video on multichain block explorers... Basically this should be a straightforward recovery, no need to go entering seeds or anything like that.
@@CryptoGuide The problem is solved, thank you.
Hey Abderrahmane Saidani, good to hear, feel free to shoot me a tip at www.reddit.com/user/Crypto-Guide/comments/czy13u/a_post_or_video_of_mine_was_helpful_feel_free_to/ :)
Hi, thanks for ur content 🙏
Is it still possible to access btc stored in a jaxx wallet ? Should I use standard bip39 ?
Also have a problem with token list - it says „no such file or directory” but I did exactly like in the instruction - copied my txt file to the btcrecover folder. Am I missing sth ?
So what's your specific issue with your seed?
@@CryptoGuide I remember only 6 words of my 12 word phrase. 2 of them on exact position - the rest I can narrow to probably 20-30 words. Is there a chance to succeed ? About jaxx I understand that’s not a problem that they no longer function, right ?
So are you saying that you are certain of 6, know the words but not position of 2 and the remaining four are certainly part of the set of 30 words?
@@CryptoGuide6 words I know
Exact position - 2/6
Remaining 6/30
So how many are completely unknown? It sounds like you generally have a math problem, not a software problem...
Is there a video tutorial that recovers the seed words as follows?
Seed 1 = 5 word
Seed 2 = 6 word
Seed 3 = 4 word
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Checksum 12 = 6 word
Just use a tokenlist, so basically the same as in the video for a scrambled seed
@CryptoGuide thanks 👍🙏
Best of luck
What if you swapped 1 word but also have a 10 letter passphrase which is not known, would this software recover the wallet
You can use BTCRecover to brute force both, but depending how complex your passphrase is, it may not be practical
Since there is no wrong passphrase, is just a different wallet how would an attacker using btc recover know which passphrase is correct without having information about the public key
Depending on the coin/chain you can just use an addressdb, so for things like Bitcoin the address isn't needed at all (And there is no performance penalty with this)@@jithagoat
Hello sir, I forgot 2 words in phrase 24 and i don't remember the wallet address is there any way to recover it
Maybe. Which wallet software were you using and which coin/chain?
@@CryptoGuide lenger wallet sir
You didn't answer the whole question. It should be straightforward, but that depends on which coin/chain you were using it with.
@@CryptoGuide bitcoin and ethereum
Recovery will be straightforward then.
good job, Steve 👍
Thanks :)
will this work for kaspa?
BTCRecover doesn't currently support Kaspa, if there are open source wallets for it then you could sponsor it to be added.
Hey Steve, great videos. I was able to get the one word missing in my phrase but when I imported am seeing a totally new wallet. Where do I go from here. Please help
Are you saying that BTCRecover identified the correct seed? If so then it's just an issue with the wallet software you are using to import the seed.
@@CryptoGuide yeah BTC recover found the correct phrase. What do you advise I do next? Please help🙏
You just import the seed into the wallet you originally used and the funds will be there. It will tell you which derivation path it matched the address on, so if you are using a different software wallet it should be straightforward to debug so that you can see the funds.
@@CryptoGuide ok thanks, let me try this out
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Can we recover private key from only wallet address
No
So , if i understand well it's useless to swap seed Words
Basically yea... (Especially for 12 word seeds)
I have installed all your software and when I test with different test seeds I always get the same wallet addresses does the software actually work?
If different seeds are giving you the same address then there is something extremely wrong withy our wallet software. (It probably has malware or something)
BTCRecover works fine, so you can generate some test seeds with something like iancoleman.io/bip39/ to generate a test seed, verify that each seed is producing deferent addresses, then test these seeds and addresses with BTCRecover.
Hi, great video. Could this work If I have an old wallet and I have a general idea of what words I had in my passphrase and I know my address?
Are you asking about a BIP39 mnemonic (or recovery phrase) or a BIP39 passphrase?
@@CryptoGuide I have no idea what im asking. Im pretty sure im not able to recover my wallet because i had accidently backed it up as a watch only wallet. But can i somehow get the private key generated for my address using the recovery passphrase if i only remember parts of it?
Which wallet software/hardware did you use? When you are talking about a recovery passphrase, are you meaning a 12 or 24 word seed?
@@CryptoGuide The wallet is from 2013 and i think its a software that looked very similar to bitcoin core. And I just remember that I had to write lots of words at some point, probably for recovery purposes. And I dont really have any idea what im doing. I wish i would have had a mechanical drive back then because it is impossible to get the original wallet.dat from my ssd recovered. But in general would it actually be possible to get the key to the original wallet if you could guess your way to the words you chose for the seed. Or is the seed something else?
How many words is it? So do you have them written down and I'm order?
I am sure you have heard this question a million times, but I have to ask: In a case where you have your 24 words scrambled and you are trying to find the right order, does it mean btcrecover will work to the end of 24 to the power of 24 or does luck come into play and you get it say 5millionth try?
Scrambled 24 words aren't recoverable just due to the math. In terms of your specific question, BTCRecover is deterministic, so works through a given tokenlist in the same order every time.
@@CryptoGuide Difficult to hear but thank you.
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Can we recover private key from only wallet address?
No
Good video, do you know if btc recovery works with mnemonic phrase created with Blockstream green wallet protected 2FA multi sing 2 of 2?
It will, but won't directly use the wallet addresses..do you still have the xpub for the signer that was derived from the seed? (Or had you previously spent from the wallet and still have these txids)
@@CryptoGuide Thank you for responding, and I apologize for any grammatical errors; I am using a translator. I don't have access to the XPUB, but I have access to a read-only account, so I can see all the addresses and txids of incoming and outgoing transactions.
So what software are you using for the read only account?
@@CryptoGuide green wallet, I access using a username and password
I'll have a look at green, which operating system are you running it on? In terms of the seed phrase, how many seed words do you have?
ciao Steve!!! I’m unsure if I’m your only Italian follower, but if so, I’m delighted to be! Just a curiosity: if you change the order of the 12 seed words (assuming you know the words), does the same mathematical principle apply as with the 24 words? Or, given the smaller number of attempts, is there a way to get it back?
I don't quite understand what you are asking, but this works the same for 12 word seeds. (And you can also just descramble all 12 words for a 12 word seed)
@@CryptoGuide Thank you for your response, Steve! Let me explain it better (I try). If I mix up the order of the 12 words and subsequently forget it, would I still be able to recover the wallet? From what I understand, it is not possible with a 24-word wallet. Therefore, I am wondering if the same impossibility applies here.
No, descrambling 12 words is trivial, can be done in an hour with a GPU
Hey Steve, your videos have been very helpful, thank you! Can I ask please - I have a SLIP-39 with one phrase complete and one phrase missing a word. I have no addresses but I have the password. Is it possible to recover? thank you
It should be straightforward as far as the math goes, but BTCRecover doesn't currently support this. (But it could be added if you wanted to sponsor it either directly or as a trusted recovery)
In terms of not having an address, which coins/chains were you using with the wallet?
@@CryptoGuide I see, thank you. Just Ethereum - I know it's easier with an address so I'll dig one up.. just wanted to see if I could do it without
Having an address or not isn't an issue for Eth, basically for this recovery it's just about having the feature added to BTCRecover.
Is that because, it can correct for a misspelled word, and can use an ETH address list, but can't currently just try every one of the 1024 SLIP-39 words in the place of the word I'm missing? What if I just inserted a misspelled word in the place of the one I'm missing
It doesn't support testing/recovery of the SLIP39 recovery phrases, only recovery where you have a working SLIP39 quorum and have an issue with the passphrase.
You can attampt to add a word by hand if you like, this will take a long time, especially if you don't know the position of the word.
The recovery would be straightforward if the feature were sponsored and added to BTCRecover.
Hey steve! I have the exact position of 18 words. I am missing the last 6 :( is it possible to recover my funds? It is around 20.000 FET.
Not really, it would take thousands of years. Depending on how much computational power increases over the coming decades, it may be possible 50 years from now.
Hi dear friend
I have the Tronlink wallet and have had it since 2020 with some Tron in it
Unfortunately, I only have 9 of the 12 words of the mnemonic phases and I have lost 3 of them
I request you to help me how to find the other 3 words
If there is a cost, I will pay
Should be doable if you know the position of the missing words and have an address that was generated with the wallet.
Hey can you help me recover my USDT
How did you lose it?
Can you please help me recover my money please
If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/)
If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN
But not btc eth
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Please l really need your help, can l call you please
If you are totally stuck then you can request a paid private session. Price, process, terms and a request form are here cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/
Great work Steve! Thanks for all your videos over my crypto journey
I have been researching BTCrecover for my situation but I have some private questions/concerns I have
Can I email you or DM on twitter or Discord?
If you are totally stuck you can request a paid private session. They are $100 USD for an hour over zoom/Skype. (Full details, terms and request form are here: cryptoguide.tips/recovery-services-consultations/)
If you want to use our paid services (either private session or trusted recovery), you can fill out the form here and we can find a time forms.office.com/r/KEypP0FRvN