Anyone have tips and tricks to help this pleb recover his friend's stash?
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You could maybe use this as a starting point and amend to deal with a passphrase.
Might be able to use: https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover
Thanks nostr:npub1vat92mxw3gt6e9cd6caanttn9zaqq6xqcsw46ye4z8jve6pqpueq3t7zrq !! I found that string of forks on github yesterday at the end of my research time. I didn’t know whether to trust them, so I was going to comb the open source to see if it had anyone the malicious in there. Is this just a found search result or do you know it to be reputable? Seems like it wouldn’t have so many forks and activity if it was a bad repo.
Whatever software you end up using, try to run it without an internet connection. Finding malicious code is soooo hard as to be almost impossible.
The maintainer of this branch has a series of youtube videos/tutorials and I believe offers consulting as well: https://m.youtube.com/@CryptoGuide
That's how I learned about it
this is the bitcoin ux that won