If you have the private key, that's all you need and you don't need any password.


Maybe, you are confusing the mnemonic phrase with private key.
Isn't that a series of words? If so, that's called mnemonic phrase, not private key.

The following link may be helpful to you.
https://login.blockchain.com/wallet/forgot-password

It's possible that the banned user is interested in a service someone has posted about it and wants to use it.
As the banned user needs to know if the announcement poster is trustworthy enough, he/she should be able to modify his/her trust list.

You can use blockchair.com.
It shows the value of inputs and outputs at the time the transaction was made.
It also calculates the "total spent" and the "total received" considering the value of the funds sent/received at the time of transactions.

In the case you have changed the email address associated with your bitcointalk account, you should see an email sent to your old email address regarding the email address change.

Wasn't Pmalek talking about stats on trust list changes?
As far as I know, it's not possible for a banned user to leave a feedback at all. Correct me if I am wrong, please.

Because the seed phrase (whether it's BIP39 or an electrum's seed) has enough entropy and you can't brute force that.


That's exactly how it should work.


If you manage to brute-force someone's seed phrase, you can access the fund. But the problem is that you can't brute-force the seed phrase.

Can you access a wallet if you brute-force its seed phrase? Yes.
Can you brute-force a seed phrase without any information about that? No.


Big entropy of the seed phrase.

I am sure you are missing something.

I just visited the website you bought bitcoin from to see how it works.
According to what I read on the website, for withdrawing bitcoin, you have to send them an image to prove that you own the withdrawal address.
How did you do the verification? Did you send an image from electrum watch-only wallet window?
Didn't you send an image from exodus wallet? That may be why they referred to Exodus in their response.

Currently, electrum uses a list containing 2048 words. The list you are referring to is for the old version of electrum's seed phrase and contains 1626 words, not 1625.


If you find a seed phrase which belongs to a funded wallet, you can spend the fund.


Whether there are 1626 words or 2048 words, it's impossible to access a funded wallet.

You can delete your post even if it's located on a locked thread.
The limitation on locked threads is that you can't edit your posts.

Are you talking about the comment made by the user with the name of nbourbon?
If so, I think he/she doesn't want to use segwit addresses just because he/she thinks that it's better to use taproot addresses. I don't think that's due to a flaw in segwit addresses.
Maybe, that user doesn't know that with using taproot addresses instead of native segwit addresses, he/she will have to pay more fee for many of the transactions.

What you are talking about is called seed phrase, not passphrase.
Passphrase is an extra word or characters added to your seed phrase for more security.


You can't be sure of that if the wallet is close-source.
For example, in a close-source non-custodial wallet like trustwallet, you have full control over your keys. But there is no way to know whether you are the only one who has access to the keys or not.

Given the method used by electrum for generating a seed phrase, even the last word contains 11 bits of entropy.
So, a 12 word seed phrase generated by electrum provides entropy of 2048¹².

Your seed phrase actually represents a random number.


That's impossible.


Yes, the seed phrase is all you need to access the fund.


You can brute-force the seed phrase only if you know some words. For example, if you know 10 words, you can test all combinations and find the 2 missing words.
It's not that you can brute-force any seed phrase. A 12 word seed phrase generated by electrum provides 132 bits of entropy and it's secure enough.

So, you didn't say anything about Exodus when contacting their support. It's weird. Because in the response, they talked about Exodus keys.

I have read all the previous replies, but I still don't know what exactly happened.
You bought bitcoin. Then you provided a bitcoin address, so they can send you the fund. Right?
Where did you get that address from?

I'm more confused now.
Where did you create your wallet? Exodus or electrum?
Maybe, you created your wallet in exodus and then imported your address into electrum. Am I right? If so, you need the exodus wallet file or the 12 word seed phrase.

If the only thing they gave you is a bitcoin address, you've been scammed.


It's not weird at all.
If you have the seed phrase or the private key, you can spend the fund.
If you have neither the seed phrase nor the private key, you are not the owner of the fund. Every one can create the watch-only wallet you have.

You can see all your addresses in "Addresses" tab. (If you don't see "Addresses" tab, click on "View" and then select "Show addresses".

OP, it's still unclear how you created your wallet. The wallet can't become watch-only suddenly and it's impossible to create a watch-only wallet by importing a seed phrase.
And please answer the question asked by LoyceV, above. Did you generate the seed phrase by yourself?

You can use btcrecover. The tool can be helpful to brute-force the seed phrase.
As there are only 2 missing words, it shouldn't be difficult to find them.

What do you want to achieve?
Do you want to have all your addresses in a single wallet? If so, you should import your private keys instead of the your seed phrases.

You do remember correctly.
The difficulty we will have after the adjustment can't be lower than 25% of the the difficulty we had before the adjustment.