Bitcoin holder recovers $400,000 wallet using Claude AI after forgetting password set while intoxicated 11 years ago
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Summary
A Bitcoin holder who changed their wallet password while under the influence of marijuana 11 years ago and subsequently forgot it was finally able to recover their wallet containing 5 BTC (worth nearly $400,000) using Anthropic's Claude AI. After finding an old mnemonic that turned out to be their password, the user dumped their entire college computer files into Claude, which successfully decrypted the wallet backup by attempting trillions of password combinations.
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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.
The bot uncovered the password after attempting trillions of combinations.
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