Keep all your crypto safe & upgrade to a Ledger Nano X Hardware Wallet
Alternatively, if you prefer a 100% Open Source wallet, a Trezor One is also a great value wallet
This guide is a offers a few examples of ways that you can use BTCRecover to recover a BIP39 passphrase if you have lost it, forgotten it or have mistyped it. (Ledger wallets call this a hidden wallet, 25th word, etc) This will work with a Trezor, Ledger Nano or Keepkey. It can be an easy mistake to make. (Ledger Live will give the error message "wrong device or passphrase")
This can be helpful if you know your 24 word recovery seed is right, but you can't seem to find your crypto, or all the addresses you see are incorrect.
Get the fork of BTCRecover here:
Previous video with guide for running BTCRecover in Ubuntu 18.04 air gapped, live environment: (Here: )
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For your first purcahse, just stick with CoinBase:
If this was helpful, feel free to send me a tip:
BTC: 37hiiSB1Poj6Shs8WawPS2HjT2jzHkFSQi
BCH: qr9qenlgjh0xlyz802h70ul69rpdj8z6qyuh7m79ah
LTC: MRWnUcsyofisVp5GvX7nxMog5caneycKZ6
ETH: 0xCe41d43349E1c8C53E02631650E236d94A899a95
VTC: vtc1qxauv20r2ux2vttrjmm9eylshl508q04uju936n
ZEN: znUihTHfwm5UJS1ywo911mdNEzd9WY9vBP7
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BIP39 Passphrase with BTCRecover (Segwit)
Typed in your recovery phrase... Wrong Addresses...
My Suggested Workflow...
Create a secure environment to run the tool... Be prepared that it could take many hours (or days) to run, even in a "normal" situation...
Get the tool working and test it with one of my scenarios above... (Irrespective of whether you use a token list or password list) Just to make sure you are getting the syntax right and can be confident to try it with your own real info...
Start with password list...
Move on to a token list if required...
Example 1: 1st Address, Short Password, Password List with one entry
Passphrase (we think): YouTube
Passphrase (with typo): youtub
Address we are looking for: 0x200440538F25D3d96D68e9abd3177EedC5b418B0
python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --passwordlist passwords-yt.txt --addr-limit 1 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos 3 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --typos-map ./typos/us-with-shifts-map.txt
Note: I have basically enabled ALL of the typo types, because it gives it the greatest chance of working... Disabling some can speed things up significantly...
Note: But this also won't add letters, or try common mispellings...
Example 2: 1st Address, Longer Password, Password List
Passphrase (with typo): etherium2018
Address we are looking for: 0x04bD2A94fE5D504200ad5b5b73190e0067C1877e
Example 3: 10th Address, 2nd account, Password form Ex2, but with Token List
Passphrase (with typo): etherium2018
Address we are looking for:
0xb48641cde293C34a7ab78B4C3DD7048138719648
python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist tokens-positional.txt --addr-limit 20 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos 3 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/1'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --typos-map ./typos/us-with-shifts-map.txt
Note: Increasing --addr-limit to 20 doesn't make it take 20 times longer... Doubling this from 10, to 20, only increases processing time by about 20%... (So if in doubt, make this number large)
24 Word Phrase (Same Phrase for both examples)
Correct:
element entire sniff tired miracle solve shadow scatter hello never tank side sight isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby
#bitcoin #btc #ethereum #eth #cryptocurrency #crypto #ledger #trezor #security
If you are new to Crypto, my suggestion is that you start with buying ~$150 worth of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin @ Coinbase and get familiar with storing it, moving it around, etc.
Passphrase (we think): Ethereum@2019 (We will use the password file from above)
Passphrase (we think): Ethereum@2019 (We will use token file from above)