findbtc
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Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives
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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