This is a V1 password recovery string. HD wallets are 12 words which act as the wallet seed.

I think the original dictionary where the words come from is about 60,000 words we can't bruteforce by hand 60,000 x 60,000. I have read the legacy recovery code on github but I'dbe fucked if I can understand it. I'm an old school programmer and last language I used was VB.

Thanks salmen

unfortunately we only have the wallet identifier and 11 out of 13 words from the password recovery mnemonic.

I am helping a friend recover funds from various wallets he hasn't logged into for years. He basically did the right thing and hodled. However, he hand wrote, on paper, various mnemonic passphrases and passwords as one should but over time the paper has go damp and has badly deteriorated, the pen used was some sort of felt tipped and the ink has run making most of it unreadable. We have recovered Ripple and are working on the bitcoin passphrase.

We have a 13 word blockchain legacy wallet passphrase to recover the password. This is not a seed string but password recover string.

However we can read all words but 2. Word 8 and 13 are eligible. I have looked at the code but it beyond my skillset to develop brute force software to recover the password.

Anybody any ideas or the skills to help brute force the password.

Thanks a lot for your help in finding that word list

Hi,

I am helping a friend recover funds from various wallets he hasn't logged into for years. He basically did the right thing and hodled. However, he hand wrote, on paper, various mnemonic passphrases and passwords as one should but over time the paper has go damp and has badly deteriorated, the pen used was some sort of felt tipped and the ink has run making most of it unreadable. We have recovered Ripple and are working on the bitcoin passphrase.

I have a quick question about word lists. I have a 12 word passphrase that can be made out with the words murder and suicide in it. It's obviously not part of the bip 39 word list. I can't work out what this passphrase is for, it was obviously something important at the time to be written down.

Anybody have any ideas what word list these are from and what wallet uses them? Strange words that gave me the creeps but are defeinately from some wallet or maybe an exchange account?

Thanks guys

The backup is encrypted unfortunately and the 12 words even though printed at the time are useless.

Hi,

Both my friend and I invested heavily in bitcoin late 2013. We both created blockchain wallets at the time. I however moved my coins over the years to an electrum wallet.

At the time he backed up the wallet file and printed out a 12 word mnemonic as did I, the printout contains a string of characters (some type of hash?) followed by the 12 words. It was not a 17 word string. However the backup is useless as he has forgotten his password, although he says he hasn't and the password which is written down does not work.

I believe the mnemonic at the time was an encryption of the wallet identifier and the password and not a seed to derive wallet addresses and private keys.

Blockchain.info recovery HD page is not accepting the string and the legacy wallet option expects 17 words.

Support are of no help and say the words must be wrong even though it's a printout from the time.

Anybody any ideas? Is there a tool anywhere to make use of this string of 12 words?

Thanks a lot.

I received a response to my support tickets from Gox.

It's a slight glimmer of hope I guess, however, it's quite insulting at the same time. How the fuck am I meant to be reassured that the problem only affects a limited number of users?

I can't see why their developers can't write a script and get these bitcoins moving through the blockchain.

There's a major problem here and I can only logically see it being 1 of 4 things.

1. They've been robbed via a hacker.
2. They're actually insolvent as many have speculated.
3. They're doing a sheep market slow kill type heist by stopping withdrawals and accumulating funds.
4. They're a complete bunch of incompetent fuck wits who don't have the skills to run a bitcoin exchange with a million accounts.

What options do we have? Any forum members have any suggestions? A social media campaign to warn about the risks involved with depositing funds with Gox maybe?

I'm desperate for my btc withdrawal and support ticket responses like this are like I said, insulting.

Who honestly knows what's going on at Gox head quarters. I'm hoping that it's a technical problem combined with gross incompetence and that it'll be resolved in the near future.

This is causing me major stress. It's been 8 days since I made a 44 btc withdrawal and I'm still waiting. I have a similar amount of btc on gox that I'm to afraid to withdraw my total net worth is locked up with those assholes . I've sent 2 support tickets without response. It doesn't look good to me and I'm starting to feel like I've been robbed.

I'm trying to keep positive about this.

Yeah I'm finished with Gox to. As soon as I get my coin back I'm smashing my gox yubi key none of my bitcoin will ever be day traded on that site again.

Mtgox is a complete shambles and the bitcoin foundation should do the decent thing and remove them as a recommended exchange and issue warnings against depositing money or coins with them. They bring nothing positive to bitcoin.

Imagine somebody new to bitcoin who attempts to withdraw fiat or btc and weeks later no cash or coin, no replies to support tickets and no way to address the situation. It's a complete disaster and their style of operation can only lead to one thing and that's failure of their business.

Good luck getting anything out of mtgox be it bitcoins or fiat.

Looking to me like they're finished and are in the process of doing a sheep market type scam.

I'm in the same boat 44 btc withdrawn on the 25th Jan and still no coins and no answer to support tickets. 44 bitcoin is a lot of money to me and consequently this is a very stressful time. I need to exchange some of those coins for fiat so I can honor some of my financial obligations.

MTGOX run their business like 10 year old children. It's looking day by day that I've been robbed.

If I ever get my coins back I'm going to smash my Gox yubi key and never use their shitty exchange again.

MTGOX are not fit for purpose.