Is Treasure Hunter Safe for Your Crypto?

In this article, we want to answer an important question: can you trust Treasure Hunter with your cryptocurrencies? It is a fair thing to ask. You might well be thinking that this is all a scam, and we get it – the cryptocurrency space is indeed riddled with scammers.

Ultimately, there is no way to guarantee trust. Any developer can claim to be honest, so instead of asking you to believe us, we would rather point to things you can verify for yourself. Two arguments work in our favor.

Treasure Hunter works entirely offline

The first – and most important – argument is that Treasure Hunter does not need the Internet to work. It can run in a completely offline environment, and we encourage every user to do exactly that. The best way to run it is on an air-gapped computer: a machine with no connection to any network, whether wired, wireless, or otherwise.

Running it this way does two things for you. First, it removes any possibility that Treasure Hunter is quietly sending your data somewhere; with no network available, there is nowhere for it to go. Second, it provides a strong defense against any malware that may already be present on your machine.

In other words, you don’t have to trust Treasure Hunter itself. You can set up your computer so that your data has no way to leave it in the first place.

Our software is signed and tied to a real identity

The second argument is about accountability. Treasure Hunter’s binaries are code-signed by DigiCert on Windows and by Apple on Mac. To obtain these signatures, a developer has to go through a verification process that includes, among other things, providing government-issued photo identification. Your operating system then checks that signature every time you run the application and warns you if it has been tampered with.

In other words, there is a real, identifiable company standing behind Treasure Hunter – not an anonymous handle that can vanish overnight.

A word of caution: avoid cracked versions

Treasure Hunter is a freemium application. You can test it out for free, but unlocking certain features requires a paid license. Because of that, some people are tempted to hunt down a cracked copy to save the $30 that a personal license costs.

Please don’t. A cracked copy has, by definition, been modified by a third party you know nothing about, which also means its original signature is broken and the accountability we described above is gone. On top of that, cracked copies are far more likely to be infected with malware built for a single purpose: to drain the very funds you are trying to recover. Saving $30 is not worth that risk.

Try Treasure Hunter today

You don’t have to take our word for any of this, and that is the point. You can run Treasure Hunter completely offline, ideally on an air-gapped machine, so that your data never leaves your control. You can confirm that the software is signed by DigiCert and Apple, and that a real, identifiable company is accountable for it.

If you are ready to try Treasure Hunter for free, you can download it here. It is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Turn off your Internet connection before running it (or better yet, run it on an air-gapped computer), stay away from cracked versions, and you should be fine.