12-05-2021, 02:22 PM
(12-05-2021, 02:21 PM)penguinkeeper Wrote: Assuming there's a possible wordlist of 2048 different words (BIP39) and 16 places for those words to go, that'd mean you had 2048 ^ 16 possible combinations, which is roughly equivalent to 96 sexdecillion possible combinations which would take an unbelievable amount of years to bruteforce through. It's mathematically impossible and there's a reason why Bitcoin uses this scheme as a recovery phrase
Even though I'm using BTCRecover, there is no relation to BIP39 seed phrases. It's a normal password for a fast hash.