Starting from "Chasing Shadows": The 2048 words that determine trillions of encrytion assets.Author: Tyler
Recently watched Jackie Chan's critically acclaimed new work "Catching the Wind and Chasing Shadows," and there is a rather interesting segment — hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars worth of cryptocurrency assets are locked in a wallet with a 12-word mnemonic, and in the end, only one word remains unknown.
I tried it after watching, and found that the 10th and 12th words are not in the standard mnemonic word list. Clearly, the screenwriter did this on purpose to prevent someone from recreating the wallet based on the plot for fraud, as similar scams on the blockchain are not uncommon:
Scammers deliberately leak a "balance-carrying" wallet address (typically on the Tron chain, utilizing the Owner mechanism) to lure everyone into transferring Gas, waiting for the unsuspecting victims. Once the funds are transferred, they can never be retrieved.
But the interesting point here is that the movie says it only lacks the last word, which is unknown. However, in the real world, the mnemonic phrase follows the BIP39 standard, which has a total of 2.
PANews·08-28 10:10