https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc

Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives
https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc

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Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc
• Owner: jakewins
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-12-06T17:00:08.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-12-10T16:09:29.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-29T03:42:42.208Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: bitcoin, bitcoin-wallet
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 103 KB
• Stars: 78
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# FindBTC

Scans devices for remnants of bitcoin wallet files. 

The tool can find wallets even if;

- The wallet was deleted, but not overwritten

- The file system is corrupted and inaccessible

- The device has been reformatted

- The wallet has been partially overwritten

- The wallet is inside a .zip or .tar.gz file, including 

  nested in multiple levels of compressed files

  

## Installing

This requires that you have the Go programming language set up on your 

machine, please see https://golang.org/doc/install 

    go get github.com/jakewins/findbtc

## Usage

    findbtc [-s start-offset] DEVICE

    

    # Eg.

    

    findbtc /dev/sda

    

## License

GPL