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
This requires that you have the Go programming language set up on your machine, please see https://golang.org/doc/install
go install github.com/jakewins/findbtc
cd ~/go/bin/
sudo ./findbtc /dev/sda
findbtc [-s start-offset] DEVICE
# Eg.
findbtc /dev/sda
GPL