jakewins/findbtc
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Find bitcoin wallets on corrupt, formatted or overwritten drives
3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2017-12-06 · latest 2021-10-30
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I wrote https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc to try to recover my 26BTC wallet, which lived on a disk I installed Windows over and gave to my mother in law. I remember looking up how much it was worth, confirmed it remained worthless and…
comment by jakewins · 2021-10-30 · in Long-dormant Bitcon wallet comes online -
…installed as per https://golang.org/doc/install you can build/install this project like this: > go install github.com/jakewins/findbtc I'll update the readme! If that's giving you trouble, I can cross compile it here and upload a binary to…
comment by jakewins · 2017-12-06 · in How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop -
Someone else might find this tool I wrote useful, it finds BTC wallets by scanning raw block devices: https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc I deleted 26BTC a while back when reinstalling a laptop, because they were effectively worthless. A…
comment by jakewins · 2017-12-06 · in How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop