🔐 Question:

You lose access to your Bitcoin wallet's private key, but you remember 12 out of 24 seed words. Assuming you know the exact order of those 12 words, how many possible combinations are left to brute-force the missing 12 words — and is it practically possible to recover your wallet this way?

💣 Mind-blower:

Even though 12 words are known and in the correct position, the remaining 12 have 2048ⁿ possibilities (where n = number of unknowns). That’s 2048¹² ≈ 2¹³² — about the same entropy as the entire Bitcoin network. So brute-forcing it would take longer than the age of the universe on all computers combined. 😵‍💫

> 🔍 This shows why Bitcoin is incredibly secure — your wallet is mathematically protected by cosmic-scale odds.