/findbtc

Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives

Primary LanguageGoGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

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