AI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after

6 hours ago

A Bitcoin holder recovered around $400,000 in BTC from a wallet locked for over a decade, with help from Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude.
The user, Cprkrn on X, regained access to 5 Bitcoin after years of failed attempts by uploading old college computer files to Claude, which identified an older wallet.dat file.
Claude did not break Bitcoin's security but assisted in sorting through files to find valid wallet data, including an old mnemonic phrase, enabling the recovery.
The story highlights that forgotten files on old hard drives could hold significant value, as the recovered Bitcoin was originally bought at about $250 per coin.

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