Partial private key recovery – Bitcoin Stack Exchange


I had the pleasure of setting up a Bitcoin wallet using the Blue Wallet app and diligently noted down the 52 characters of my private key on a piece of paper for backup purposes.

Upon revisiting the paper to import my private key into a Wallet App, I discovered, that it was not recognized by the system.

It appears I may have inadvertently transcribed 2-3 characters inaccurately.

Could you kindly advise if there’s a method by which I might retrieve my private key through Python, assuming the misspelling of up to three characters..?


I apologize for the lack of clarity in my explanation. I imported a private key, which was generated externally, into the Blue Wallet and subsequently destroyed the written copy of that private key.

Afterward, when I attempted to transcribe the 52-character private key from the backup tab in Blue Wallet onto paper, it seems I may have incorrectly noted down 2-3 characters.

Therefore, my inquiry is not specifically about Blue Wallet. I’m asking if there’s a way to recover the correct sequence when 2-3 characters out of an arbitrary 52-character string are missing, not involving seed phrases.

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