Restoring empty wallets when wrong passphrase is given
Created by: bodorb11
Last time when I was restoring my wallet, I had my seed, but I forgot my passphrase. Since there is a small number of passwords that I usually use, eventually I was able to guess the right one. However this took me unnecessarily long.
The problem is that even if you enter a wrong a passphrase some wallet is "recovered". Now in most cases this wallet is empty (meaning that there is no incoming or outgoing transaction from any of the addresses), since most likely no one was using a wallet with your seeds. On the other hand, if you want to recover your own wallet, it is probably not empty.
So my suggestion would be to add some feature that when you are about to recover a wallet, then the app checks whether it is empty or not, and sends a warning if it is (or by default it does not recover such wallets).
Remark: this problem is also present at many other wallets (e.g. Electrum), so I will contact them as well.