Topic: 12-word recovery phrase - LOST. 2k who can help - page 2. (Read 467 times)

Maybe you should read the article this was not about 12 unknown words.

1. Created a new wallet
2. Closed atomic
3. Deleted the file (00003.txt)
4. Reopened Atomic wallet and it's now asking me to create a new one (as if the other one no longer exists).

I don't think I would've got these results if it was a log tracker.

But it's a log tracker? How do you know thi is the file? how did u tested?

If you read from start you'll see that 8 of the 12 words were known. So he only searched for 4 words.
For each missing word it's exponentially more difficult and you are missing all 12 words.

Then how this guy did it then if it's impossible?

https://medium.com/@johncantrell97/how-i-checked-over-1-trillion-mnemonics-in-30-hours-to-win-a-bitcoin-635fe051a752

Brute forcing mnemonics is not going to work simply because then everybody could do it.
In fact, brute forcing mnemonics is the slowest way to get to your coins.
It's way faster to target the address directly, but even then you don't stand a chance and have to rely on pure luck.
The only thing left will depend on how you reinstalled the new operating system and what you did with it afterwards.
If you did a slow format everything will be gone, but if you did a fast format everything that was not overwritten will still be there.

Super computer time is cost more than 2k as i know

I've done some more tests to try and locate the wallet file, and I'm almost certain that this is it: (ignore the previous post I made)


(Same location as in Jaxx wallet)

If you ever manage to recover it, reinstall Atomic wallet and place it on leveldb folder.

dovjann, if you don't have at least part of the seed, a public BTC address won't help you - because if it was so easy to hack a private key, Bitcoin would have been a thing of the past long time ago. Your best chance is to find a wallet file from Atomic Wallet, and since you've probably compromised old data by using your computer for 3-4 weeks, the only thing I can recommend is to try to find a Windows.old folder that should contain that file.

hey:

https://medium.com/@johncantrell97/how-i-checked-over-1-trillion-mnemonics-in-30-hours-to-win-a-bitcoin-635fe051a752

Yes, the appData folder should contain the wallet file. I believe this is the file (icudtl.dat) that contains the private keys for your wallet:



I suggest you first reach out to Atomic wallet support, and confirm whether the file I mentioned is the correct one or not and then you can try to recover it, you probably won't need to recover the whole folder.

So you have absolutely nothing from the old wallet, no seed, no backup, nothing?
What wallet.dat you actually want to "crack" if you don't have the old one?
Do you understand that if finding the private key (or seed if you want) for a random address would work, no address would be safe and Bitcoin would have been long dead?

I hope that I've misunderstood something. And sorry for your loss...

You mean recover the wallet folder I had before reinstalling windows?

It's impossible to recover your 12 words seed if you don't know most of its words.

Your only chance would be to try and recover the wallet file and decrypt it.

I'm sorry for your lost bro, that's all I can say

One more example of how important is to keep your keys

Edit:
After windows crashed, you could run a linux distribution live (cd/usb) or even connect the ssd to a PC running on linux and get all your wallet data out
If you had a clean installation, I'm afraid you've lost all data, but you can still try to do that above and take a deep scan of your appdata files, maybe there is some

good luck

Hello,

I have used Atomic Wallet on my laptop, unfortunately I did not saved my 12-word recovery phrase. (Yes I am dumb). My laptop crashed suddenly and I had to do a reinstall of windows. I have not used this wallet for a while until one person sent me a lot of money, even I had new wallet..

1) I used laptop 3-4 weeks after reinstallation so recover data is probably poor chance, plus I use SSD, not HDD, so I probably overwritten the data already.

2) As I researched I believe the only chance is Check mnemonics to get 12 phrase recovery?:

There are 2048 words https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

I need to recover my 12 phrase recovery, I know my wallet address, but I can not remember any word that was in my 12 phrase recovery.

You look up the word's index in the dictionary I linked above to convert it to a binary number, then you run the BIP39 algorithm, which converts a number to a private key, then you use that private key to generate the address (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-a-bitcoin-wallet-address-from-a-private-key-eca3ddd9c05f/) and compare that to the known address.

Practically: you just have to run the specialized software. Either Hashcat (hashcat.net), or this https://github.com/johncantrell97/bip39-solver-gpu

The hashcat command will probably look like this:
hashcat -a 3 -m 11300 wallet.dat

I need that a company or someone that knows who has super computer like google has it, to recover my 12 phrase recovery..

Let me know your thoughts, possibilities or any other ideas, I know the password of my wallet btw.. Transactions.. Wallet Address..

Who can help me, I will honor 2k$ ..


Thank you.