Re: the genius detective who thinks he cracked crypto.com’s word list in commercial

Regarding the recent “genius detective” who claimed to have “cracked” the seed words in crypto.com’s commercial: the fact that so many people on this sub think that there’s any evidence whatsoever of this person actually cracking a wallet that crypto.com activated shows how hilariously little the people of this sub know about how crypto wallets work.

This person believes that he actually solved the puzzle, despite the fact that no crypto has ever been moved in or out of this wallet, and so many of you didn’t seem to realize how stupid that sounds.

I’m not trying to call him or anyone else stupid; I’m simply saying that the vast majority here seem to have no idea how wallets work.

nothing was cracked

He merely took the list from the commercial, replaced the words that aren’t in the BIP 39 word list, replaced them with other words from the commercial that are in BIP 39, and then changed the order until the combination was useable (that is, corresponds with the base58 checksum criteria). To see how easy that is to accomplish, randomly put in 12 BIP 39 words. If the address is not valid, change the last word until it works. It shouldn’t take you too many tries before it works. When it does, that doesn’t mean that this wallet was previously activated or anything, just that it meets the base58 criteria.

If anyone who was part of creating the word list in the commercial sees the post I am referencing, and the amount of attention it received, they will find it hilariously ignorant.

TL;DR - Cheers to Op for trying, but there’s zero evidence that crypto.com actually opened that address. I think this error shows that maybe people start learning more about crypto and stop starring at the price? Just a thought.