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Scanning a stack of old drives[edit | edit source]

monofuel — 2021-01-31

So I’ve had a stack of old hard drives I hadn’t thrown out, because I was worried they might have some cryptocurrency I’ve forgotten about. I’m 99% sure I’ve kept track of all my wallets, but what if I forgot one somewhere! WHAT IF! So I took a little time to hack together scripts to help automate scanning my old drives for any old crypto wallets. I haven’t really had much crypto, but I know I did gpu mine a little bit around 2014.

https://github.com/monofuel/btc-scan

I’ve also been manually looking through the drives, but hopefully these scripts can help me sleep better at night, and encourage me to keep better backups. I’m now keeping much better track of my data with a local truenas server, and replicating to a remote truenas server.

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