Key recovery from seed mnemonic

[carlos]

I'm trying to recover particular key to known public address with some balance. The problem is that I've got old 12-word mnemonic from 2014 and I don't know which software wallet was used to create it. Luckily mnemonic is correct and checksum is right.

Using some default BIP32 derivation paths and Mnemonic Code Converter I haven't been able to find that particular public address. As I understand it, wallet software used to create this mnemonic was using some non-standard derivation path. Is there any way to "bruteforce", ie try to find public address by trying all possibilities of derivation paths?

Is there a definitive list of all derivation paths to check?

[dothebeats]

Have you tried downloading Electrum and input your mnemonics on there? I also have a 12-word mnemonic for recovery and the only wallet I use is Electrum. Nothing would be lost though, and afaik it's the only wallet that requires such a mnemonic to recover a wallet (I stand corrected on this) and you also need your old passphrase to access your wallet and all.

[HCP]

Is there a definitive list of all derivation paths to check?

The most common ones are:

m/44'/0'/0'
m/0'/0
m/0'
m/0

You might want to also look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1000544.0

One thing to remember... do you know if the address you're looking for was a "receive" address or a "change" address? If it is a "change" address, you may need to make sure that the "External/Internal" part of the derivation path is set to "1".

[carlos]

Thanks for the link, HCP!

That is exactly what I was looking for.. In that topic there is this list:

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=584F122BA17116EE!313&app=Excel

[TheReverseTrader]

Have you tried this tool? https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/