It's one of strangest stories I have ever known.

You got robbed, in your house, and you were free enough to create your wallet with Bitcoin Core and moved your bitcoin from Blockchain.com wallet (?) to Bitcoin Core wallet (?)

Later, the criminals left your house after taking all your cash, and this part of story raises a big question, that what did they do with you when they were in your house?

It's very possible a fiction, not actual story.

Your only hope is BTCRecover. If you are able to remember at least some of the password (depending on how strong the entire password is) then you should be able to recover it. There isn't much else you can do and I highly recommend that you do not trust anyone with the wallet.dat. There aren't many white knights left, and you run the risk of recovering the swiftly losing your BTC if you trust someone else with it.

I'm no pro when it comes to recovery but as far as I've read, what you're already trying is the best hope that you have.

If you are no longer in danger, try and take some time off and reset your mind as you've just gone through a very traumatic experience. When you are a little clearer in the mind, maybe the password (or at least a bigger part of it) will come to you.


Seems more likely that you were targeted for a specific reason that's a bit more personal, in comparison to it being a completely random attack because you are Jewish and we are (apparently) in a holocaust. Focus more so on recovering your coins than making this political or religiously motivated (if you're serious to begin with) as no one cares about the additional meta and at the end of the day, you are only going to narrow your audience of who may help with statements like these.

What's the most powerful way to use BTCRecover? I've been gaining experience for a month, but I know I am not doing this efficiently. Tips would be greatly appreciated.

When I was abducted they of course did a chemical lobotomy on me, I think that's the main issue contributing to this problem. I was brainwashed to forget what business even is.

P.S. To be clear, I remember a whole bunch of words, numbers, and sequences of special characters that are likely part of the password. My memories are scrambled like an egg though.

God bless you.

BTCRecover is definitely your best bet here. If I were you, I would combine it with a password generating tool such as cracken (https://github.com/shmuelamar/cracken) to generate a big list of possible passwords.

For example:
cracken --wordlist firstnames.txt --wordlist lastnames.lst --charset 'ABCDEFabcdefg' '?w1?w2?1?d?d?d'

this command would create a list of all possible combinations of:

Wordlist1 + Wordlist2 + One of these characters: ABCDEFabcdefg + A digit from 0-9 + A digit from 0-9 + A digit from 0-9

I'm getting much more serious with my attempts to recover the password, spending hour after hour mapping all possible elements and all possible combinations. I found that writing down all the possible elements on paper is sparking my memory to remember every possible word/number/character that I would ever use in a password.

I found that I wasn't feeding the special characters correctly into BTCRecover, the $ has to be written in the token file as %S, and ^ needs to be %^. One of my primary theories from my memory is that the password ends with something like !@#$%^&* --- basically all the special characters in a row on the keyboard, and since I wasn't doing the code right, it gives me hope that I'll find it now that the program is reading special characters correctly.

Perhaps I already almost cracked the password, but the $ and the ^ in the password weren't handled by BTCrecover. I think this is what's happening.

I'm going to look into running with GPU to see if that increases speed. If my speed was faster by some orders of magnitude, it would be much more feasible. Right now it's testing approximately 3,000 password combos every minute. I'm pretty sure that number can be brought up to the tens of thousands per minute once I optimize efficiency.

Thank you for the advice. BTCRecover generates possible combinations too. Does using cracken 1st and then feeding in the password list make the process significantly faster?

Please if anyone else has good advice or knows which experts I can talk to, let me know in this thread. This is a pivotal moment in my life, and my family will be much more successful and secure if I can just get this password.

All things considered, I know that this is all from God and that this whole scenario is all for the best. That being said, it's definitely the right time to fix this huge problem, and I believe that once I get some more expert advice or assistance, that this will be solved. The upsides are that the Bitcoins are in a wallet on my computer nice and safe, and that I had to type the password twice to encrypt the wallet, so it has to be a password that I personally typed. And I have a whole list of possible password elements, it's just a matter of getting the right sequence.

Worst case scenario, I typo'd twice in a row when I saved the password. But even then, I would just use the typo features on BTCRecover, once I can narrow down the possibilities enough, or if I can get the program to be fast enough.

I've been working on setting up the GPU acceleration all night and finally got it working. Now I'm at approximately 10,000 passwords per minute which is already alot better.

It says that if i optimize the --global-ws and --local-ws parameters that it's possible to get a 10X improvement, so God willing I can get it upwards of 100,000 passwords a minute.

Also, this can run multiple servers computers GPUs in parallel, so I'm gonna start working on that. Then I can scale up much more.

I really wanna get it strong in case I have to start running all the typo parameters. I'm truly baffled it hasn't cracked it yet, so it might be a typo situation

How much is at the stake?

Really sorry for your loss. I think that if your story is real and you can submit proof, there could be some possibility for you to even raise these funds someway with help from others.

Most of the time (90% +), when someone posts something like this, they have paid to buy hacked wallets and they realise that the password they were given was wrong. In other words, they were scammed.

I hope that's not the case with you and, of course, you don't have to answer me. But, if it was the case, I am terribly sorry but there is no chance of getting coins from there.

If the wallet is indeed yours, then perhaps you have a slim chance of remembering (or brute-forcing) the password.

Look at my previous post, try and hook up with that dude that runs that YT channel, i would consider him being an expert within using BTCrecover and recovering funds in general.

Best of luck! - i really hope you get this resolved

God bless you, yes I am absolutely driven to get this password. I'm enjoying how this project is getting me back into Bitcoin programming actually. Crypto is truly amazing once you start to interact with the actual technology. It's not just a balance to look at. It's a living creation.

BTW, supposedly with the encrypted BTCrecover Hash, there's no way for someone to steal the Bitcoins even if they get the password, which is why I was thinking of just opening this up to the community.

However, I have a feeling there might be a way to generate the private key itself or a wallet.dat for one of the Bitcoin Wallet programs with the information that can be gleaned from the partial master key and the password, plus additional brute forcing techniques. I can imagine someone cracking the password from the partial mkey, and then pointing all their hashing power to another program that brute forces a wallet file or private key. Or maybe they can target the client's computer and just hack out the wallet.dat. That's alot easier than cracking Bitcoin Core encryption. So yeah, that concerns me too.

I think it might be getting to the point that Bitcoin is becoming insecure. With BTCrecover you can scale up to infinite hashing power using parallel servers. And then if you get a pool of people all doing that, plus technology is better than ever, I'm pretty sure it can go all the way and crack open wallets where the attacker doesn't know any of the password. Alot of Bitcoin wallets are probably vulnerable to brute force at this point, and I can see it getting to the point that Bitcoin is absolutely compromised, if we're not already there.

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I am offering a 0.042 Bitcoin tip to anyone who wants to crack the password. Let me know. I could eventually figure this out myself, but I really am spending all day on this, just absolutely fixated on saving my family, and I need this to be over.

You can simply give me the exact information about which code program technique I should use, and if it solves this issue, I'll send you the tip.

Alternatively, I can give you the mkey hash key thing, and a ton of info on the possible password structure, and I bet some people here can get the password within an hour with the technology they have. This is a safe way to do this, and there won't be any disasters.

Let me know, I'll give the info if anyone is actually serious. Fastest person to crack it gets $3600+ of Bitcoin, as soon as I get access back to them I'll send without any delay.

I am running 1 million password combos per hour currently. I don't know how this particular password is so lost. It's crazy and surreal and I'm desperately waiting for the happy ending.