btcrecover is an open source Bitcoin wallet password recovery tool. It is designed for the case where you already know most of your password, but need assistance in trying different possible combinations.
- Bitcoin wallet support for:
- Litecoin wallet support for:
- Free and Open Source - anyone can download, inspect, use, and redistribute this software
- Supported on Windows, Linux, and OS X
- Options to help minimize the search space - the more you remember about your password, the less time it will take to find
- Multithreaded searches, with user-selectable thread count
- Experimental GPU acceleration for Bitcoin Core and Litecoin-Qt wallets
- Wildcard expansion
- Typo simulation
- Progress bar and ETA display (at the command line)
- Interrupt and Continue searches without losing progress
- Optional autosave - continue searches even after inadvertent interruptions or crashes
- “Offline” mode for Bitcoin Core, MultiBit, Electrum, Blockchain, and Litecoin-Qt wallets - use one of the extract scripts (click for more information) to extract just enough information to attempt password recovery, without giving btcrecover or whoever runs it access to any of the addresses or private keys in your Bitcoin wallet.
- “Nearly offline” mode for Armory - use an extract script (click for more information) to extract a single private key for attempting password recovery. btcrecover and whoever runs it will only have access to this one address/private key from your Bitcoin wallet.
Please see TUTORIAL.md for more information, including installation instructions and requirements.
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