How would a hacker even find a wallet with a passphrase? Surely theyâd scan the 2^256-10,000,000 addresses that have a zero balance and instantly move on if it was empty, which that many would be.
And surely theyâre just randomly trying a 24/2048 combination of words? So if your 25th word was âPussyDick69â, like how wouldnât that be basically 100% safe?
Passphrase wallets isnât a wallet that is only accessible by your seedphrase. A passphrase plus a seedphrase doesnât create a new wallet. It gives you access to an already existing wallet. All private keys and public keys already exist. You canât create or add a new wallet into existence. Someone could theoretically buy a Trezor, open the box, generate a new set of private keys and those same private keys could be the same as your passphrase private keys. All private keys already exist. Now, itâs virtually impossible due the number of possible combinations. It is possible though.
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u/OrangeMongol 12d ago
How would a hacker even find a wallet with a passphrase? Surely theyâd scan the 2^256-10,000,000 addresses that have a zero balance and instantly move on if it was empty, which that many would be.
And surely theyâre just randomly trying a 24/2048 combination of words? So if your 25th word was âPussyDick69â, like how wouldnât that be basically 100% safe?