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Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

Tom's Hardware·Jowi Morales·6 months ago
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A Bitcoin holder who changed their wallet password while 'stoned' and then forgot it was finally able to recover their wallet with the help of Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they’d been trying to recover their wallet for more than 11 years. Still, they didn’t give up because that wallet contained 5 BTC; this may not sound much, but it has a value of almost $400,000.

After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort.…

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