Legacy & Discontinued Wallet Recovery

When a wallet's software is discontinued, the keys aren't gone - the software to open them is. That's exactly the situation this service exists for. If a file, backup or recovery phrase from that era still exists, the format is almost always known, and the route back is technical, not magical.

Early Bitcoin-era software

• MultiBit Classic and MultiBit HD: .wallet files and HD phrases; the software is gone, the formats are documented.
• Early Bitcoin Core versions: wallet.dat files and legacy formats from the early era. Note: the Randstorm window covers browser-generated wallets, not Bitcoin Core.
• Armory: wallet backups and private-key files from the desktop client.
• Earlier Electrum versions: old seed formats and wallet files, restored or searched depending on what remains.
• Blockchain.com / blockchain.info legacy: second-password wallets and wallet.aes.json backups.
• Brain wallets: recoverable only if you remember the phrase that generated the key - there is no file to recover.

Ethereum-era wallets and services

• Mist and Ether.li: both discontinued; keystore / UTC files and any backups are the route.
• Ethereum 2014 presale wallets: a specific encrypted format; the encrypted file remains the recovery target; remembered details can help focus a candidate search.
• Old Ethereum keystores (Geth, MEW): scrypt or PBKDF2 encrypted; password search on a copy.
• Alta: the multi-coin wallet app that shut down; the recovery phrase is the route.

Dogecoin, XRP and altcoin wallets

• Dogechain.info: the site no longer works, and there is no account-based recovery. The only route is the private key or wallet backup you exported before the site went down - if that exists, we can work with it; if not, nothing technical can restore the keys.
• MultiDoge and Dogecoin Core: wallet files and passwords from the early Dogecoin era.
• Litecoin Core and early Litecoin wallets: wallet.dat files and passwords.
• Toast (XRP): discontinued; the backup code and passphrase are the route.

Web and mobile wallets that shut down

• BRD (breadwallet): the app and company are gone; the 12-word recovery phrase restores the wallet in any compatible BIP-39 wallet.
• Jaxx Liberty: shut down in 2023; the 12-word mnemonic is the route.
• Hive (hivewallet.com, closed in 2016): the app is gone; the recovery phrase restores the wallet in compatible software.
• GreenAddress (predecessor of Blockstream Green): recoverable from the recovery phrase; multisig and 2FA settings can complicate the route.
• BTC.com / Blocktrail: discontinued wallets whose files and formats we know.

What is recoverable

If a file, backup or recovery phrase exists, legacy formats are often readable with the right tooling, even when the original software is gone. A wallet with no file, no backup and no phrase is not recoverable, whatever its age.

What we do not recover

Custodial accounts where the keys lived on a company's servers - for example Mt. Gox, Circle's old bitcoin wallet, Xapo or Coinbase Vault. Those aren't wallet files; the keys were never in your hands, and the route, if any, runs through the company or a legal process, not through recovery. If we can't help, we say so in the assessment instead of taking the case.

How it works

Assessment, written agreement, then format analysis and recovery on controlled copies. Handover is always client-controlled - you open the wallet and move the funds yourself.

The honest boundary

Old software is not a mystery - the formats are documented and verifiable. What matters is the material that remains, and we tell you honestly what that means for your case.

Old backups count

A wallet file, even without its original software, is the strongest starting point; a paper or printed backup from that era often contains what a specialist needs to identify the format and the route back.