Restoring from an Electrum-v1 passphrase

[pooya87]

Have you tried contacting the developer of Electrum? They definitely know and remember a lot more about the very early versions when Electrum was in beta phase and about things that have significantly changed about the wallet creation that are not backward compatible.
You can create a new issue here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues

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[drmindset]

The folks over at Electrum were so kind to offer advice and told me that I may have a BRAIN WALLET, given that in 2011 there was no checksum. I think this is what I have. I'm assuming that Electrum at that time generated the same wallet and that the two wallets were cross platform.

I've tried off https://github.com/ryancdotorg/brainflayer and see that he recently updated it. I'll try it again.
Are there any other similar tools out there?

[nc50lc]

The folks over at Electrum were so kind to offer advice and told me that I may have a BRAIN WALLET, given that in 2011 there was no checksum. I think this is what I have. I'm assuming that Electrum at that time generated the same wallet and that the two wallets were cross platform.
-snip-

I have already mentioned the possibility of it being a "brainwallet" in the very first reply in this thread.

Anyways, it's a totally different thing, it's not a mnemonic/seed phrase, neither implemented in Electrum.
It's simply a way to use phrases or words as a private key by getting the SHA-256 sum of it.
If you're looking for an alternative tool (yours is for cracking/generating random brainwallets), you might wanna use: https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generator (download the source and use on an offline machine).
After pasting your "passphrase", a private key and address pair will be generated ("toggle key" to display prvKey),
check the address on a blockexplorer if it has a balance.

[drmindset]

I have already mentioned the possibility of it being a "brainwallet" in the very first reply in this thread.

...thank you for that. Does that mean that early bitcoin addresses were except for the way they were generated, brainwallets?

If you're looking for an alternative tool (yours is for cracking/generating random brainwallets), you might wanna use: https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generator (download the source and use on an offline machine).
After pasting your "passphrase", a private key and address pair will be generated ("toggle key" to display prvKey),
check the address on a blockexplorer if it has a balance.

I'll try this first. If I'm successful, I'll post the frustrating details of this wallet.

[nc50lc]

I have already mentioned the possibility of it being a "brainwallet" in the very first reply in this thread.

...thank you for that. Does that mean that early bitcoin addresses were except for the way they were generated, brainwallets?
-snop-

No, but it's famous around the early years of the Bitcoin.

The reason is just what I've described in that post: Because you called your random set of words as "passphrase", that gave me an idea that it could be a brainwallet.
It's what they call the phrase that the private key will be based.