Help recovering my password and forked coins

[NotAManiac]

Hi all,

I used to own quite some Bitcoins but those are long gone, sadly.
I do however have an old wallet.dat left from BitcoinQT that seems to hold a few forked coins.

I need some advice here. First of all, looking at the attached screenshot, are these coins claimable? If not then I will save myself a lot of troubles.
If there are then I hope someone here can help me out.

Like probably tons of others here I 'kinda' lost my password. It's about 25 characters long and I know pretty much every word/number I used.
But after trying for a hour I can't figure out the right combination.
Considering I know 95 to 100% of my password, can someone here suggest the best way to crack it? I browsed for some cracking tools but they are just so complicated. I spent the last 2 hours setting up Python on my Windows PC and trying several things but it's just not for me.
Is there an easy tool that just lets me enter the words and numbers I know and I can just click run?

OR

If those coins are recoverable and someone has the skills I'm willing to send my wallet and give you 25% of what you can recover. Obviously I will only do this with a very trusted person who lots of people can vouch for.
Random people don't need to bother hitting me up asking me to send offer the wallet. I won't.

Any suggestions, tips, help is highly appreciated.
It's not a lot of money but enough to spend some time on.

Thanks!

https://i.imgur.com/znE15de.jpg

[BitMaxz]

BTCrecover tool is one of the well-known tools to recover passwords for wallet.dat.
You can find the tutorial from here https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md

And get some idea from any of these posts below.

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3049316.20
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157028.0

Or if you can't do it on your own you can try this https://walletrecoveryservices.com/

And read this below before you use walletrecoverservices.
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5309200.msg56090163#msg56090163

It's a well-known company here on the forum so I believe that they are legit.


About your fork coins, you can only claim them after you recover your password and dump all private keys from your wallet file.

[Maus0728]

Have you ever tried using Kali Linux' Password cracking tools? I prefer you use crunch^[1] as it lets you modify its logic to guess your password depending on the sequence of each and every characters you think were on the right place. The link given already explains its idea so better check it out. This tool is only used for making wordlists hence guessing your password one by one would be solved just by having a list of possible guesses depending on your criteria set.

Also, those coins were already dead, you can check it in coinmarketcap yourself to see what coin is still exchangeable and I only manage to lookup is your BCB, which would give you atleast 231USD. You should check the others on CMC for you to see what exchange supports those coins. Careful on whom you would entrust the recovery of your wallet! Also, as an alternative, if you can remember the mnemonics of your private key, then you can try Mnemonic Converter^[2] to help you access your accounts by using private key access.

[1] - https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/tutorial-create-wordlists-with-crunch-0165931/
[2] - https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

[LoyceV]

From your screenshot, I can/would only recover Bitcoin Diamond. All other Forkcoins are traded at shady exchanges. The value of your BCD is a bit lower though, you're currently holding about $220 if you sell your BCD on Binance.
If you however manage to successfully sell some of the other Forkcoins, I'd love to hear how and where you did it.

Good luck with the password first.

[NotAManiac]

Is there an easy tool that just lets me enter the words and numbers I know and I can just click run?

AFAIK no, the easiest tool i know is BTCRecover (https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover/). Take note it's different from @BitMaxz since it's more up-to-date and support Python 3.
But don't worry since there many members who have experience with BTCRecover and willing to help you step-by-step.

Any suggestions, tips, help is highly appreciated.

This thread (LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service)) show some guide and tips if you plan to claim forked coins manually.

Thanks for the info!

From your screenshot, I can/would only recover Bitcoin Diamond. All other Forkcoins are traded at shady exchanges. The value of your BCD is a bit lower though, you're currently holding about $220 if you sell your BCD on Binance.
If you however manage to successfully sell some of the other Forkcoins, I'd love to hear how and where you did it.

Good luck with the password first.

Bummer! If I can figure it out I will update! Thanks.