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Re: Bitcoin recovery got me banned on reddit?
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FastWalletRecovery
on 01/09/2024, 19:42:19 UTC
So far I've only tested it on password protected bitcoin core wallets, but in theory it would work on other wallets if a password hash can be extracted. The script to extract the hash is "https://github.com/openwall/john/blob/bleeding-jumbo/run/bitcoin2john.py" which I did not create. In the same repository it looks like there are scripts that can extract electrum, cardano, ethereum, and other non wallet hashes like apple notes. If there is interest, I could very easily support these other wallets. However, I haven't even gotten interest in bitcoin wallets so far, so it's not a high priority.

These scripts are written in python, and should be able to run on any system with python installed (Windows, Linux, or MacOS). I've also found a self-contained python executable for windows that doesn't require installation: https[Suspicious link removed]/releases. I would not be the one extracting the hash, that would be up to the person in posession of the wallet file.  If the wallet could be extracted from a phone, and there is a script to support it, that would work too.

My software has been tested on Windows and Linux. In theory it should run on MacOS too. I'm not using rainbow tables, I'm using GPU's to generate the hashes. Every hashing algorithm is different, and takes varying amounts of processing power. On bitcoin core wallets I can test several thousand hashes a second. This can be scaled up, but I'm paying for cloud GPU time by the hour.