Anthropic’s Claude Reportedly Helps Recover Access to Lost Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years
Anthropic’s Claude was reportedly used to help recover access to a bitcoin wallet that had been inaccessible for more than 11 years after the owner uploaded files from an old college computer into the model. Accounts of the recovery said Claude identified an older wallet.dat backup that could be decrypted with a mnemonic phrase the owner had found weeks earlier.
The holder said he bought the bitcoin around 2014 for roughly $250 a coin, later changed the password and failed to regain access despite years of attempts. One detailed account said Claude also identified a bug in the wallet software’s handling of the shared key and password, ran btcrecover to extract the private keys and pointed to an address that had received 16.95 BTC over its lifetime, worth more than $1.7 million at current prices; the wallet was later emptied.
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@laurashinRT @cprkrn: HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍 h…
@nic_carter@cprkrn @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei wait that's insane
@degeneratenewsNEW: BITCOIN ENTHUSIAST CLAIMS THAT HE RECOVERED HIS 11+ YEAR LOCKED BTC WALLET BY FEEDING HIS OLD COLLEGE COMPUTER FILES INTO CLAUDE AI, WHICH FOUND THE WALLET FILE DECRYPTED BY AN OLD MNEMONIC
@udiwertheimer@cprkrn @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei @blknoiz06 claude thinks 5 btc is a lot of money 😭
@tftc21A Bitcoin holder @cprkrn just used Claude to recover access to a wallet he'd been locked out of for over 11 years. He bought the bitcoin around 2014 when it was roughly $250 each. At some point he got stoned and changed his password, then
@trustlessstateRT @cprkrn: HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍 h…
@cointelegraph🔥 JUST IN: A man reportedly regained access to a lost 5 $BTC wallet after using Claude to identify an old wallet.dat backup file from his college laptop.
@chooserichTech elite fly to China as Claude hacks Bitcoin
@dcinvestorthis is scary…i mean, this is great