Indeed, most that was cracked is 4 words by John Cantrell
However he wrote his own tooling in Rust and made the process as efficient as it can be.
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I remember this.
But did he take it down? I was looking to recover an old seed a while back.
Is there a way of refining the search when you know the first letter of those forgotten words?
Yes, it allows for almost anything you can think of.
Check this playlist on YT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q65eqpf4gE&list=PL7rfJxwogDzmd1IanPrmlTg3ewAIq-BZJ
If its not there go through the documentation.
Thanks!
Wonder why I didn't see this before...
Alex, any interest in hunting for some lost coins for a 50% bounty? It’s not a sizable amount but it’s an interesting problem: recursive bip85, several layers deep.
Normally I would, but now I’m working on my movie(Satoshis Don’t Exist)I have 0 free time.
Contact this guy, he is the one maintaining the tool.
I tried talking to John, he prob thought I was a scammer.
Can’t easily get a hold of the guy you linked through X, I’ll try other means eventually. Not really in a rush, as it makes for good nitty gritty work for my future kids lol
hE wRoTe ThE tOoLiNg In RuSt
doesn't matter, it's bulk computation
it's just generate secret, generate pubkey, hash to address, check, repeat
i've not yet seen anyone write an AVX2 secret->pubkey derivation algorithm so i doubt that it mattered that he used C, C++, C# or Go
there's really almost no scope for making this computation more efficient, it's scalar multiplication, mostly
i just want to point that out because fuck rust
The articles clarifies why he managed to get better time.
Hint parallelisation.