AI helps recover lost BTC wallet
X user Cprkrn used Anthropic's Claude AI to recover a 9-year-old Bitcoin wallet containing 5 BTC, worth ~$400,000. The wallet, inactive since 2015, was restored by analyzing old files and mnemonic clues.
🚨BREAKING🚨 A guy just recovered 5 BTC with Claude AI and this might be one of the craziest real-world AI moments yet 🤯 He was trying to recover an old Bitcoin wallet for years. Everything looked dead. Then Claude started analyzing the wallet encryption logic step-by-step. It noticed the password handling was wrong. The actual decrypt format was: sharedKey + password NOT just the password alone. Once that bug was fixed, Claude successfully decrypted the private keys, converted them to WIF format, verified the wallet addresses… And then came the message: “WE GOT IT!!! THE 5 BTC IS YOURS!” 🚀 Imagine losing access to millions for years… and an AI helps you recover it in one session. People still think AI is just for homework and image generation. Meanwhile AI is literally recovering lost Bitcoin wallets now 😭
CLAUDE FOUND 5 BTC ON A PERSON OLD COMPUTER - USER BOUGHT BITCOIN 11 YEARS AGO AND LOST MNEMONIC SEED PHRASES CLAUDE RAN A FULL COMPUTER SEARCH AND FOUND IT HIDDEN IN HIS OLD COMPUTER FUNDS RECOVERED SOURCE : REDDIT #bitcoin
รายนี้สูญเสีย BTC wallet มี 5 BTC ในนั้นไปตั้งแต่ปี 2015 เลย dump wallet.DAT file สมัยก่อนจะเปลี่ยน password ให้ Claude แล้วเอา seedphrases ใส่ให้ claude ลองกับ password เก่าสำหรับ wallet.DAT (ตัวเก่าก่อนเปลี่ยน password) แล้วแงะได้ แล้ว Claude มันไปค้นหา opensource tool ชื่อ btcrecover เพื่อ bruteforce อีกที แล้วไปเจอ bug ใน tool ตัวนี้ ว่าเอา sharedkey มาผสมกับ password ผิดลำดับ Claude เลยลองใหม่ด้วยวิธีที่ Claude แก้ bug tool ตัวนั้น ได้ password ใหม่ในรอบเดียว ปรากฏเปิด wallet ได้ 5 BTC คืน 😱 ‼️
Utterly insane! Bitcoiner holder retrieves >5 BTC as Claude traced his forgotten password. He forgot the password of his 2015 Bitcoin wallet. For 11 years he could see his Bitcoin in the blockchain, but can't access it. In desperation he gives Claude total control over his entire hard drive. Claude regenerates the key in an hour. He's now ~$400K richer as of today BTC worth. He spent $15 in GPU rental and Claude subscription. Best deal ever.
summary of how @cprkrn was able to recover his long lost 5 BTC that had been inaccessible for over 11 years with AI he provided Claude AI with old college computer files and a partial mnemonic. the AI analyzed the data, located an old wallet backup, and identified a specific bug in the btcrecover decryption tool related to how the sharedKey and password were concatenated. using this insight, Claude helped reconstruct the forgotten password “lol420fuckthePOLICE” allowing him to extract the private keys. Important to note that this was not a seed phrase crack or a breach of Bitcoin’s security… it was a clever recovery of an old, poorly backed up wallet using AI assisted forensic analysis of personal files.
This is an absolutely insane story... Claude just recovered this guy's lost $BTC wallet with 7 TRILLION password attempts. AI is the biggest technological revolution ever - and we get the privilege of watching miracles unfold in real-time.
🚨 A Bitcoin holder claims to have recovered a wallet containing 5 BTC, which had been locked for over 11 years, thanks to Claude. After changing his password without writing it down, he spent years unsuccessfully testing combinations. A few weeks ago, he rediscovered an old mnemonic phrase, but it did not match any known wallet. As a last resort, he provided Claude with the entire contents of his old college computer. The AI identified a forgotten wallet file, which the mnemonic phrase successfully decrypted. He publicly thanks @AnthropicAI
5 BTC fully recovered after 11+ years locked out, all because one stoned night 😂 here’s what happened; - he forgot his password - tried trillions of password combinations, not one hit 😂 - dug up an old mnemonic, turned out to be the password he had before but he changed it. - he believed he was screwed. - tried out different methods and even paid to get his password recovered or reset, none worked - then uploaded his entire old college laptop to Claude and it found a wallet file he had completely forgotten about. - the mnemonic decrypted it on the first try. rare case and these are things we love to see 😍 funny how the password is “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” definition of a real stoner 😂