This is a utility to recover private keys from wallets created by the legacy and now-abandoned blockstack-client Python module. This tool is inspired by the success story of someone who recovered 1BTC using a basic version of this tool. I ported it to Python 3 and made it easy to run with minimum dependencies. This utility works on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Discussion thread on Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317833.0
Install using pip:
pip install blockstack_recover
Or clone this Github repo and then run:
apt-get install build-essential libffi-dev libssl-dev python-dev
python setup.py install
If installation fails because of dependency issues, try creating a virtualenv first and installing blockstack_recover in that:
python -m venv blockstack_env
# On Unix
source blockstack_env/bin/activate
# On Windows
blockstack_env\Scripts\activate.bat
# on all platforms
pip install blockstack_recover
Blockstack creates the the wallet.json file inside $HOME/.blockstack for Linux and C:/Users/username/.blockstack for Windows. It creates the .blockstack folder in your home folder in all cases.
This file is encrypted and can be decrypted using the decrypt subcomand if you know the password.
Example invocation using blockstack-recover decrypt /home/ubuntu/.blockstack/wallet.json /tmp/decrypted-wallet.json
Blockstack Legacy wallet private key extractor by NotATether
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Opening wallet file /tmp/encwallet.json...
Enter wallet password:
Dumping decryted wallet to /tmp/wallet.json
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master_private_key: e33d56f41cf64bc53cda0c5d963bf673a4bdd7db01c3c6d86937b8c2f99286b201
wallet_password: qwertyuiop
Once you have the decrypted wallet.json, or perhaps you have the copy that Blockstack asked you to backup when you created the wallet, use the extract subcommand to dump its wallet information including private keys to the terminal.
Example incovation using blockstack_recover extract /tmp/decrypted-wallet.json:
Blockstack Legacy wallet private key extractor by NotATether
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Opening wallet file ../wallet.json...
Deriving master private key...
Dumping wallet info: Make sure to import payment_WIF
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master_private_key: e33d56f41cf64bc53cda0c5d963bf673a4bdd7db01c3c6d86937b8c2f99286b201
wallet_password: qwertyuiop
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owner_addresses: ['1HSsAuiZkBZr7UtCHpGpun6KNEZVN7VeYw']
owner_addresses: 1HSsAuiZkBZr7UtCHpGpun6KNEZVN7VeYw
owner_key_hex: eea604061aa6d40be8c975758335869c55369692725f326d03400d984068354601
WIF owner: L5DcUHwCoLSmAVXL1pa2ycaVqCN3g4LUYWJvxaBCKyULJn4HXUZk
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payment_addresses: ['1NGyJBY8peLGMiGQRWsd1J96iJ8XppBh2B']
payment_addresses: 1NGyJBY8peLGMiGQRWsd1J96iJ8XppBh2B
payment_key_hex b13c3ba20318abf2b9f6aa017964c809e9d3215396cef1648c2f94f92264926701
WIF payment: L3AEUTCqJsqWv2YowCwRrJFYw5tsUaVunokSaQQZpDKVCtG7i1tM
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payment_addresses: ['19FFB3N65WZ4o95Je3pYLiW51a1qC1Ajo9']
payment_addresses: 19FFB3N65WZ4o95Je3pYLiW51a1qC1Ajo9
payment_key_hex 162c8298b7104d4d50b782f5ffd689c80d6e2e53f949703e6e137e2d7bf3a96101
WIF payment: KwxpAVS4wc7qUM7fPzZosih2Hp55JRvZuSwT9oZ9SKBaC4gu2u9k
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FROM MASTER
Address: 1CiuZ4G32KqgiCAePLpMBUPtZ6im8iLVNa
Priv HEX: e33d56f41cf64bc53cda0c5d963bf673a4bdd7db01c3c6d86937b8c2f99286b201
WIF Master: L4qSBYSbfeHM1nCL1esc6kANbkmdKhXGdSSLcHev42Kt94GxiBrr
Your money will be located in the WIF payment private key, so import or sweep that into another wallet.