Missing 10 Characters in WIF Private Key - Can I recover them?

[PawGo]

Suppose you do find the coins (which actually belong to @soferox) - how will you return them to him?

Some others think it too 

No, you were the first who said that two problems are connected, while they are not:

how this thing ended ? OP found it ?

Here they're searching it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404406.0

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[casinotester0001]

@NotATether is helping @soferox

Update:

The OP has since identified two of the unknown WIF characters at the end. We managed to get Bitcrack running on his two GTX 1070's searching for the remaining 8 characters at a combined speed of 400Mkeys/s, over Discord.  The estimated runtime is 16 days. Hopefully, it turns up with his lost WIF.

And then he answers, after I had said, that they are searching it there https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404406.0, where is a link to the challenge https://github.com/phrutis/wif500 and there you can see the damaged paper:

Suppose you do find the coins (which actually belong to @soferox) - how will you return them to him?

I thought that he would know it.

No, you were the first who said that two problems are connected, while they are not:

Are you sure that they are not?

@soferox
Can you give us an answer?

[cyptomania]

The damaged paper in the picture is burned not water damaged.

[NotATether]

@NotATether is helping @soferox

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@soferox
Can you give us an answer?

We never got anywhere near a solution, and besides, OP deleted his telegram account 3 months ago (or maybe it was autodeleted by TG) - That is where we were working from, hardly at all on Discord. Note that we were trying to recover an ETH private key from a screenshot which had some purple marker scribbles from Paint on it.

[cyptomania]

It just made no sense on the Cracked site that if the key was recovered from the characters he put up that this would end up being a key that would not work that "they" would have to decode it,impossible to me,key found would be THE KEY,if I'm wrong about anything please let me know,I wouldnt waste my time on the eth key,I like to play with my program for partial keys but it's near impossible to actually find a real one.

[cyptomania]

Or if you can confirm the @soferox partial key is this posted key that would be great,you worked with him and would know the answer to that question,I'd like to try it and would let my machine run 2 years but not without some confirmation from you or @sorerox.

[ProjectSe7en]

Man really wish I'd have done at least 1 tx on this thing.

I know it's a long shot, but still: Any chance you ever signed a message to prove ownership of that address?

Thats a good idea, but ssadly this was a offline wallet from the start and never used, only ever deposited into.

Thanks tho
S.

Are you still trying?, cause I have my own programms for that, I can join to the search ASAP! 

[cyptomania]

Don't waste anytime on this,I found this during Covid lockdown when I was looking into my old wallets and keys I had and needed some help,I finished with them and thought this would be a cool thing to try,it's a scam,the OP put in a clearly fake picture,all burned instead of water damaged LOL,the Address is real the key is fake for that address,no one is so stupid to post the the real key,sure we can't break it now but in 10 years who knows,so the way he had it set up was you would join his group and be given a "range" and when you got 90% through the range you would contact him and then he would finish it up,this guy was on crack or something thinking people would actually do it,the range he sent you with HIS program is probably real but it was not searching for the key in the picture,only the real key is known to him and a few others maybe,garbage don't waste your time,if the OP is out there and reads this come back on here and talk,prove me wrong please others think your an idiot too,he won't.

[ProjectSe7en]

Don't waste anytime on this,I found this during Covid lockdown when I was looking into my old wallets and keys I had and needed some help,I finished with them and thought this would be a cool thing to try,it's a scam,the OP put in a clearly fake picture,all burned instead of water damaged LOL,the Address is real the key is fake for that address,no one is so stupid to post the the real key,sure we can't break it now but in 10 years who knows,so the way he had it set up was you would join his group and be given a "range" and when you got 90% through the range you would contact him and then he would finish it up,this guy was on crack or something thinking people would actually do it,the range he sent you with HIS program is probably real but it was not searching for the key in the picture,only the real key is known to him and a few others maybe,garbage don't waste your time,if the OP is out there and reads this come back on here and talk,prove me wrong please others think your an idiot too,he won't.

You mean the 500 WIF? of the user Phrutis? or (something like that), this is not another Key, I remember that 500wif is 12 chars missing.

[cyptomania]

Yes that's the one I meant the 500 WIF by Phrutis,which one are you talking about ?

[cyptomania]

@NotATether is helping @soferox

Update:

The OP has since identified two of the unknown WIF characters at the end. We managed to get Bitcrack running on his two GTX 1070's searching for the remaining 8 characters at a combined speed of 400Mkeys/s, over Discord.  The estimated runtime is 16 days. Hopefully, it turns up with his lost WIF.

And then he answers, after I had said, that they are searching it there https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404406.0, where is a link to the challenge https://github.com/phrutis/wif500 and there you can see the damaged paper:

Suppose you do find the coins (which actually belong to @soferox) - how will you return them to him?

I thought that he would know it.

No, you were the first who said that two problems are connected, while they are not:

Are you sure that they are not?

@soferox
Can you give us an answer?

[cyptomania]

Looks to me there the same and the @soferox one is legit,the other one by phrutis is a scam,my opinion only though.