Blockchain.com, which was for a long time known as Blockchain.info, is one of the oldest and most popular web-based cryptocurrency wallets. Many early Bitcoin adopters used this wallet to store their coins.
While it is a web wallet, the service allowed users to download backup files. If you used Blockchain.info years ago, one of these backup files may still be sitting somewhere on your computer, and you may have long forgotten where you saved it.
If you are wondering how to find your Blockchain.com wallet file, the best way is to scan your computer with an application called Treasure Hunter.
How to automatically scan your computer for Blockchain.com wallets
The most reliable way to track down a Blockchain.com backup file is to use software built for this job. This is why I created Treasure Hunter: it inspects the contents of every file on your device to determine whether it holds cryptocurrency data. Thanks to its advanced detection techniques, it recognizes Blockchain.com wallet files even if they have been renamed, buried in an archive, or partially corrupted.
It works on a wide variety of storage devices, including HDDs, SSDs, USB keys, SD cards, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Treasure Hunter runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. All you have to do is press a few buttons while the software does the heavy lifting!
The manual way
If you would rather not download any software, you can search for your backup file yourself. Just be aware that a manual search is much more time-consuming, as you have to comb through your entire computer and every drive you own. It is also error-prone, and you may walk away empty-handed from a device that does hold a wallet. This is especially likely if you took steps to hide your wallet file, for instance by renaming it or moving it somewhere obscure.
Unlike many wallet software, Blockchain.com wallet files do not have a default folder or location; they can be located
anywhere on your computer or storage devices. Your best option is to use your operating system’s search function to look
for filenames that end with wallet.aes.json.
The contents of this file vary depending on the wallet version. There are too many variations to list them all, but as an example, it can look like this:
1{
2 "pbkdf2_iterations": 5000,
3 "version": 2,
4 "payload": "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"
5}
Or it can look like this:
1{
2 "guid": "9bb4c672-563e-4806-9012-a3e8f86a0eca",
3 "sharedKey": "728e769e-4c26-4301-a0b8-2db25c564c5a",
4 "double_encryption": true,
5 "dpasswordhash": "2de3fba5e1bce771e7425686b30970a70b6a5cac1aff5acbc9e1b3bca365f47a",
6 "options": {
7 "pbkdf2_iterations": 10000,
8 "fee_policy": 0,
9 "html5_notifications": false,
10 "logout_time": 600000,
11 "tx_display": 0,
12 "always_keep_local_backup": false,
13 "transactions_per_page": 30,
14 "additional_seeds": []
15 },
16 "keys": [
17 {
18 "addr": "1BUoAfr3N6RcH3JArntzoFGfk9hrgU4i5a",
19 "priv": "3BxRTG45Rf1v4V0zJLb1SdUULBIlAPPvTzo2lkMHbusI0MdaMO+wspiT7ZSorervEHq722+liMEu5azs6DUvsQ==",
20 "created_time": 0,
21 "created_device_name": "javascript_web",
22 "created_device_version": "1.0",
23 "priv_decrypted": "8V3qAkjVPsWgWASdvyXSSvkZ9A3obdEzwfMpavJ8MD5A",
24 "privkey_compressed": "KzwrWpHpu5zyZXDDsV4MWkDhobhji46kk2YYpWr4vwDxYLHa3NXs",
25 "privkey_uncompressed": "5JfFqtx1tDv1aef7YNmG52BaiNTSzLHFttZ53A2bsjeNeXKKkUc"
26 }
27 ]
28}
In some cases, the file may be entirely encrypted and its contents made up of random characters.
It is worth noting that in the early days, Blockchain.info would email these wallet.aes.json files to users. You may
want to check your old mailboxes for such an email.
