https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc
Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives
https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc
bitcoin bitcoin-wallet
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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 (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-17T18:20:51.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-30T09:07:16.253Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: bitcoin, bitcoin-wallet
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 97.7 KB
- Stars: 91
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 13
- Open Issues: 2
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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 install github.com/jakewins/findbtc
cd ~/go/bin/
sudo ./findbtc /dev/sda
## Usage
findbtc [-s start-offset] DEVICE
# Eg.
findbtc /dev/sda
## License
GPL