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TL;DR An X user says Claude helped him recover access to 5 Bitcoin after 11 years.
The user says the AI found an old wallet file that worked with an old password clue.
The recovered Bitcoin was originally purchased for around $1,250 and is now worth almost $400,000.
There’s a whole subgenre of crypto horror stories built around people who bought Bitcoin early, realized they’d lost access to it once the value skyrocketed, and then had to spend the next decade staring into the middle distance. One especially famous case involves a man who’s now dedicated his life to searching a Welsh landfill for a small fortune. This latest tale looked like it belonged in the same pile, until Claude apparently helped give an 11-year Bitcoin search saga a happy ending.
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In a post on X, user @cprkrn claimed that Anthropic’s Claude helped him recover access to 5 BTC from an old Blockchain.com wallet. It was originally purchased for around $1,250, and is worth almost $400,000 at the time of writing. In the post, he celebrated that “Claude just cracked this,” thanked Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei, and offered to name his child after the latter.
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Before you panic-dump your crypto because AI can apparently crack Bitcoin wallets now, breathe. That isn’t quite what happened here. Based on the user’s own thread and screenshots, Claude seems to have helped him work through a messy recovery process involving a wallet backup and an old password clue.
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