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AI recovers $400K bitcoin account stoner locked himself out of while high — and his password is ridiculous

New York Post·Natalie O'Neill·6 months ago
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A stoner who changed his bitcoin password to something totally “obvious” while high in college nearly a decade ago finally recovered $400,000 thanks to an “AI assistant,” he said.

The guy thought his fortune had gone up in smoke after trying “like 7 trillion passwords” and finally enlisting the AI assistant Claude — which miraculously found a 9-year-old file with the password on an old computer, he wrote on X.

The user said his password turned out to be lol420f*ckthePOLICE! carballo – stock.adobe.com

The user, who goes by the handle @cprkrn , said the mystery password turned out to be: lol420f*ckthePOLICE!

“HOLY F-CKING SH-T OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SH-T, THANK YOU,” the exuberant user tweeted this week. “NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU”

He added, “I thought I was screwed.”

The user, @cprkrn, tweeted about the tech triumph this week.…

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