A Bitcoin holder has gone viral after claiming he recovered approximately $400,000 in BTC from a wallet locked for over a decade, with help from Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude.
The user, known as Cprkrn on X, shared the wild crypto recovery story on May 13. He regained access to 5 Bitcoin after years of failed attempts. At current prices, that's roughly $398,000.
The Backstory
The wallet had been locked since the user's college days. He originally bought the crypto when it was worth around $250 per coin, then lost access after changing the wallet password while high. The password? "lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)"
How Claude Helped
After trying trillions of password combinations over the years, the breakthrough came when he uploaded files from his old college computer into Claude. Rather than guessing the password, Claude helped dig through old files and identify an older wallet.dat file that predated the password change. He also had an old mnemonic phrase that helped unlock the wallet once the correct file was found.
"I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao. Found this old pneumonic a few weeks ago that ended up being the old password before I changed it. Thought I was screwed. Last ditch effort dumped my whole college computer into Claude. It found an OLD wallet file that the pneumonic..."
Not a Security Breach
The story quickly spread across crypto and AI circles. Many pointed out that Claude did not "break" Bitcoin's security. Instead, it helped the user sort through old files, understand what went wrong, and recover access using valid wallet data.
A Reminder
For anyone with old hard drives lying around, this is a brutal reminder: your forgotten files could be worth more than you think. Cprkrn even said he plans on naming his child after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei—seems like a fair deal considering he's now $400,000 richer.
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