Good afternoon, is it safe to transfer the password hash? And what does it store?
bitcoin2john.py
$bitcoin$96$c1ce586fcbd57a0dd60a1b08a65a3fad9269f788d7bcecd411d95cc222c9f0cdf7ebfc6fa33847607f7b8c1338a2c3f8$16$10cb87989a39ef71$60692$96$31f40dacb48f2aae7bd601bb50f1d4ce3ef826e0307539665ac80dba7a42480dc76de571876a82af347d7a01bd3cfb6c$66$03faef628e4cc1aec8438e8459364cfd0f867500beb9bdb17383d803cd02946c01
If you run bitcoin2john.py on a wallet.dat file it outputs above line, which starts with $bitcoin$ , this is the hash to the password of your wallet.
It has NOTHING to do with your private key, so YES, its safe to send it to a wallet recovery service or whoever helps you with retrieving your password.
The private key is encrypted in the wallet file, but not included in the above hash, not even your public address is included in the hash above, just information regarding the password you used to encrypt your wallet file.
So the person who cracks the hash above with a password, will just get your password. To access your funds, you have to have the physical file, unlock it, then sync it with bitcoin-qt, and finally move funds or export private key to another wallet like electrum etc
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