Bitcoin2john Jun 2026

You need Bitcoin2john because you cannot simply "reset" a Bitcoin wallet password. Without the password, the private keys remain encrypted forever. Bitcoin2john translates that encrypted blob into a format that allows you to launch a brute-force, dictionary, or rule-based attack to recover the human-memorable password.

john --format=bitcoin --wordlist=rockyou.txt --rules=best64 hash.txt Bitcoin2john