Hello everyone,

is there some way to securely run BTCRecover seed phrase recovery on cloud rigs, like vast.io? I know it's not recommended because the host can take the seed phrase for themselves, if found.

What I would like to do is recover a 12 word seed phrase where I know the first 3 words, for the remaining words I have a list of nearly 50 words. I have a rough idea which words *could* be part of the seed, and which are *probably* not part of it, but I'm not sure so it's really just guesswork. Is this even doable, if yes, how long would it take? Or would I need to know more of the words, like 4-5? Obviously my PC is nowhere near powerful enough for this.

Yes, sorry, I didn't mean the unzipping itself was the problem, but there was something not quite right with my folder.

I didn't use hardened addresses, and I'm pretty sure it was the second account in Metamask, created in Metamask.

That would mean this argument is ok, right?
--bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0"

But if the wallet was not created in Metamask, but rather a Ledger was added to Metamask, then I would need to use the other derivation path?

So I guess my safest bet is just to use the ETH file with both of those derivation paths?



Reuse which seed where?

Yes, I found the same information when googling, like you wrote, Metamask derivation path is m’/44’/60’/0/0, and Ledger is m’/44’/60’. They are quite similar, but the last zeroes are missing, but maybe that's not important.

Actually come to think of it, Ledgers come with a 24 word seed phrase, and since the one I'm looking for has 12, so most likely the derivation Metamask derivation path should work?

What happens if I remove the argument --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0, will it find all derivation paths or does it just look for some default one?

Thanks for the replies, seems there was something wrong with my BTCRecover package, after unzipping the downloaded package once more, the Descramble example worked.


Is there some way to see the derivation path of an ETH wallet? I'm worried I might miss the seed phrase because of a too low addr-limit and/or wrong bip32-path, but at the same time changing/removing these arguments can make a big difference to how long it takes to run the script.
I just know the address is a Metamask wallet connected to a Ledger...

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out how to do two different scenarios with a token list for a 12 word seed phrase recovery. I've been reading the docs and some threads on this forum, but for some reason I can't get it to work.

1. The first thing is that I want to want to use a list with 12 words, but the first two words and positions are known. I thought my list file should look like this:


Just to try if it is working at all and to save some time, I created a new empty wallet, added the 12 words to my token list file and added + ^num^ for each of the first 10 words (according to the pattern above), assuming it would finish in a few seconds, but it just keeps saying "Seed not found, sorry...". What am I doing wrong? I am sure the words and positions are correct. Does it not work with empty wallets?

python seedrecover.py --no-dupchecks --mnemonic-length 12 --language EN --dsw --wallet-type ethereum --addr-limit 1 --addrs 0xMyAddress --tokenlist ./docs/Usage_Examples/2020-05-02_Descrambling_a_12_word_seed/randomcombination_bip39.txt --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0"

2. The second scenario is to add additional words to my list that I *think* could be words 3 and 4, but I am not sure if they really are part of the seed phrase at all, can that be done?