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Bitcoin Owner Claims Claude AI Cracked Lost Wallet Password, Netting $400K in BTC
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An X thread claiming Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover a long-lost Bitcoin wallet worth roughly $400,000 went viral on Wednesday, drawing millions of views.
Key facts
- An X thread claiming Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover a long-lost Bitcoin wallet worth roughly $400,000 went viral on Wednesday, drawing millions of views
- Cprkrn also shared a post from August 2023, suggesting that the wallet had been “locked” since 2015
- Holy fucking shit OMG Claude cracked this shit,” Cprkrn wrote, tagging Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei
- HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU THANK YOU NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU pic.twitter.com/xB5LUJb6Pe
Summary
An X user claimed Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover access to a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC worth roughly $400,000. The viral posts generated more than 6 million views and sparked debate over AI’s role in crypto wallet recovery. Recovery experts said the screenshots appear to show AI-assisted file analysis rather than Claude “cracking” Bitcoin encryption. The posts came from a pseudonymous X user “Cprkrn” who said Claude helped unlock a Bitcoin wallet containing 5 BTC that had purportedly been inaccessible for nearly nine years.