jakewins / findbtc

Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives

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