I lost the last 2 words

kirokou commented 3 years ago

Hi. I had stored 0.7 ETH on my nano S ledger 2 years ago. But that wallet shit doesn't light up anymore. I have the secret sentence but I lost the last 2 words. I just know which letters they start with. Is it possible to recover the entire passphrase with your application? So, how to do. If it works, I pledge to give 50% as an official donation.

nicoschtein commented 3 years ago

Hi! It is totally recoverable ! You can use this updated fork for better stability and documentation:

HTTPS://GitHub.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover

https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/

If you need help let me know I'd be happy to help, and donation can go to https://github.com/3rdIteration or gurnec.

kirokou commented 3 years ago

Thank you. I will follow the documentation and get back to you quickly

kirokou commented 3 years ago

I succeeded in installing the necessary elements. In my case, what commands do I need to run in the terminal with seedrecover.py to get it to give me the correct passphrase? I remind you that I have the first 22 words and that I know where the other 2 begin. But I no longer have a history of public keys. I have mac OS.

3rdIteration commented 3 years ago

If you don't have the address you will need to use an AddressDB for Eth, docco and download here: https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Creating_and_Using_AddressDB/

If you have 22 out of 24 words, you can just run seedrecover.py without any additional arguments beyond any you use for the AddressDB. You just need to select the Eth wallet, enter the 22 words that you have and it will work the rest out. (You shouldn't need the starting letters for the missing ones in this situation)

ChezThomas commented 3 years ago

Another (alternative) and little bit tricky option you may want to try if you are patient enough would be to use:

Make Sure to use it OFFLINE (you can download the webpage as a package / file, then disconnect your internet, open your browser in private mode and open the website saved previously on your computer).

https://3rditeration.github.io/mnemonic-recovery/src/index.html Then for your word at the position 23, let's say it starts with the letter "b" for exemple: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt (so if "b" starts at 137 to 253 (so 116 possibilities) so I will input my "22 words + baby + x" wait a mn or so, then create a list of the corresponding generated address (not all of them but only the one matching with your wallet)... and repeat this 116 times :-)
Then you erase you clipboard, cache, ... and connect again to the internet and open your create databases with all the possible options (words + wallet link) and you just wait to open a wallet with you 0.7eth balance :-)

I think it can be done in 7-10hours of time maximum.

Cheers!

T.

gurnec / btcrecover

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