How I Stole a User's Siacoin
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
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#2I'd pay to discover the error I made :)
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#3I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying.
https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
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#4I often wish that password entry for things fully under your control (i.e. when there are no retry limits aside from brute computational power) would come with limited brute forcing support.
Such password dialogs could just let you type your best effort, and they could use the things you type to inform the guessing process; you could fat-finger a character or two, and it would just take a moment longer to log in as it uses the accurate parts of the data to make educated guesses of the password. For old encrypted files, for example, I often don't remember which password or which combination of passwords I might have used, but I can provide all the important bits and a smart program could easily guess the right combination.
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#5I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying. https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
Wow. That's like, "I know I bought a house a few years ago. It was a decent house, I think, but I lost the address and can't seem to remember where it was or how to find it again." (except that with Bitcoin, it's like, "the house is somewhere in this galaxy, but I can't remember which solar system")
Re: How I Stole a User's Siacoin
#6I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying. https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
It's not possible with only the address. If you have the encrypted wallet I could give it a try though.
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#7I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying. https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
As in trying to guess the private key given the hash of a public key?
If thats the game there are higher value address to try.
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#8I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying. https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
Do you have the hard drives wallet.dat was stored on at some point?
Re: How I Stole a User's Siacoin
#9I often wish that password entry for things fully under your control (i.e. when there are no retry limits aside from brute computational power) would come with limited brute forcing support. Such password dialogs could just let you type your best effort, and they could use the things you type to inform the guessing process; you could fat-finger a character or two, and it would just take a moment longer to log in as i…
It's a protocol, there's no way to rate-limit beyond the mathematics behind the protocol. The author of the blog post could have written their own software to try passphrases if existing software is rate limited.
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#10I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2011 and I lost my wallet.dat file (through several stupid moves on my part). It's got approx 103 BTC in it, anyone is welcome to it, I've given up trying. https://blockchain.info/address/166BuLPWHUjqoqiYp5rGE3B5r5Am...
Do you have the hard drives wallet.dat was stored on at some point?
i was going to ask the same thing, you can search the bytes in hex for 01 03 6B 65 79 41 04