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Cryptocurrency wallet access recovery.
Forgotten passwords and incomplete BIP-39 phrases.
Passwords you half remember and BIP-39 phrases that are incomplete, misspelled or out of order. The feasibility study is free, and you only pay if access is recovered.
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Paid on success
A commission on what is recovered. No recovery, nothing to pay. No deposits and no “analysis fees”.
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Never custodial
I return the access, not the money. I do not hold or administer your funds: the only movement leaving your wallet is the transaction for my fee, to an address stated in the contract and for an amount agreed beforehand. The rest is untouched: it stays yours, and what you do with it is your decision.
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Proof of ownership
I only take a case if you can show the wallet is yours. That is the line between a recovery and a theft.
The first thing you get from me will probably be a “no”. Most cases that arrive have no mathematical solution, and saying so quickly and for free is part of the service.
Tell me about your case Free, no commitment, and without writing a single word of your phrase.
The process
How a case actually runs
Always in this order, with no shortcuts. Until step four you have handed me nothing sensitive, and the money shows up at the last step, not at the first.
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The form
You fill in the case study form: questions about the format, about what you remember and about how you could prove the wallet is yours. You don’t have to enter your phrase, your keys or your passwords: they are not needed at this stage, and the form itself refuses to send if it detects a secret.
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Feasibility study
Free. I look at the file format and, above all, at what you remember. Out of that comes a verdict with its technical reason: feasible, doubtful or impossible. If it is impossible, it ends here and you owe me nothing.
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Contract and proof of ownership
I write to you with the verdict. If the case is feasible, I ask you for proof that the wallet is yours and send you the contract, with the fee closed in advance. Without both, I neither request nor accept material.
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The video call
Mandatory, and it is where I stop being anonymous. On that call you give me the details of what you remember of your password or your phrase.
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Technical work
On machines under my sole control: my own equipment or, if the case needs more computing power, a dedicated server I rent for it and wipe when it ends. Never on a third-party recovery service or a shared-compute platform.
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The result and the closing
I tell you whether it worked or it did not. If it did not, the contract ends at no cost to you and I destroy the material all the same, with written confirmation. If it did, I collect my fee with a single transaction and in the same act hand you the credential and that transaction’s id, so you can check on chain that only that moved. The credential is given to you on the closing video call, the second and last one. Handover receipt, deletion of every copy and written confirmation.
Does your case fit this route? It starts by filling in the form, and the study costs nothing.
Fill in the formI normally reply within a couple of days, including when the answer is no.
Pricing
What it costs
There is no fixed rate, because no two cases are alike. The fee is agreed with you in writing before anything starts, and it follows the real difficulty of the case: the file’s parameters, how much useful information you bring, and the compute hours required.
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The range
It usually sits between 15% and 20% of what is recovered, which is the going rate in this field. In exceptionally expensive cases — weeks of compute, several fronts at once — it can be higher, and then I justify it to you with the hours before you sign. Whatever is signed is what stands.
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Set before, not after
The percentage is fixed in the contract, before your material is touched. If the case turns out harder than expected, that is my problem and the price does not move.
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Zero if there is no result
No deposits, no analysis charges, no minimum for opening a case. The feasibility study is always free, and above all when the answer is that nothing can be done.
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When it is not worth it for you
If what sits inside the wallet is worth little, I will say so: sometimes it is simply not worth the work. In that case I explain how to try it yourself with open tools, and I do not charge for the explanation.
The fee only exists if there is a recovery. Before that there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign.
Ask for the free studyFrom what you tell me comes a verdict with its technical reason: feasible, doubtful or impossible.
Real scope
What I can and cannot recover
The difference is not effort or hardware: it is how much information survived. If none did, there is nothing to do, and no provider on earth can change that.
YES Cases with a way out
- Passwords you remember something about: fragments, variants, a pattern you used, the rough length.
- Common formats: MetaMask encrypted vault, Ethereum JSON
keystore, Bitcoin Corewallet.dat,BIP-38private keys. BIP-39phrases missing one word, or a few.- Complete phrases in the wrong order, or with misspelled words that are not in the wordlist.
- Wallets created with randomness generators already known and documented to be broken.
NO Cases without one
- Long, genuinely random passwords from a password manager, with no clue to narrow the search.
- A recovery phrase lost entirely: twelve or twenty-four unknown words cannot be searched, not with every computer on the planet.
- Funds sent to the wrong address or to a scam. A confirmed transaction is irreversible; anyone who tells you otherwise is setting up the second scam.
- Wallets whose ownership you cannot demonstrate in any way.
- Accounts on a centralised exchange: there is no cryptography to break there, there is a support desk to talk to.
If you do not know which column yours falls into, that is exactly what the feasibility study is for.
Have my case looked atAnd if it falls on the right, I tell you in the first minute, at no charge.
If your case sits in the right-hand column, you hear it from me in the first minute, at no charge. I would rather lose a client than sell them hope.
Criteria
How I differ from a scam
This field is full of people who charge up front and vanish. I am not asking you to trust me: here are the criteria, so you can compare — here and anywhere else you ask.
| Point | Scam signal | How I work |
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| Payment | Asks for a deposit, an “analysis fee”, or gas “to release the funds”. | A commission on what is recovered. Zero if there is no result. |
| Promises | Guarantees recovery, whatever the case. | I explain what is impossible and why, with numbers. |
| Your phrase | Asks for your full recovery phrase or your private keys up front, in writing. | I ask for none of that up front, neither by email nor on the form. What you remember of your password or your phrase is only needed after the contract is signed, and you give me the details on the video call. |
| Your funds | Offers to hold or move the money “for safety”. | I do not hold or administer your capital. The only movement is my fee, authorised in writing, with the amount and address fixed beforehand. |
| Pace | Urgency, countdowns, “limited slots”, pressure to decide today. | A written contract, proof of ownership, and as much time as it takes. |
| Identity | A profile with no trace, contact only through a messaging app, payment to a throwaway address. | A real identity as soon as we talk, a mandatory video call, and a written contract before anything is touched. |
Writing
Articles
What I know, explained so you can decide without me. None of them needs you to hire me, and several tell you when you should not hire anyone.
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Read the article
I lost one word of my 24-word seed: can it be recovered?
Almost always yes, and not because of a powerful computer: the word list has a built-in check that throws out nearly every wrong guess. When it gets hard, in plain language.
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Why some wallet passwords are unrecoverable
A wallet password is not «decrypted», it is guessed. Whether it can be done depends on how much you remember and how slow each try is — no jargon.
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Read the article
How to prove a wallet is yours without handing over your key
Step-by-step guide to signing a message to prove a wallet is yours, in MetaMask, Electrum, Bitcoin Core and hardware wallets — and what works as proof if you cannot get in.
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The five recovery scams and how to avoid them
The full catalogue: the advance fee, the fake ethical hacker, the phrase validator, the “recovery of the recovery”, and impersonation.
Who I am
Why this site is anonymous, and how it stops being so
I do not publish my name on this page, and I would rather explain that than hide it. This field runs on impersonation: a public identity attached to a recovery service ends up used as a front by other people, and the person who pays for that is whoever trusted the name rather than the person behind it. That is the only reason; there is nothing fiscal or legal behind it.
As soon as you fill in the form and there is a case worth looking at, I stop being anonymous to you: you get my name, my identity document and my tax details. We meet on video twice, and only twice: once before starting, to sign the contract, and once at the end, to hand your access back. Verification runs both ways: I ask you for proof of ownership, you ask me for identity.
Contact
How to write to me
Fill in the case study form. If you have a question before filling it in, that is what the email below is for. Neither route requires you to give me a single word of your phrase.
Email keystonecontact@llimalabs.com
LlimaLabs is the name I develop my projects under; KeyStone is one of them. That’s why the email and the domain carry that name.
Go to the form It organises what I need to know and refuses to send if it detects a secret.