Anthropic’s Claude helped a user recover 5 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) worth $395,000 by locating an old wallet backup file on their computer.
Claude Found The File, Not The Password
The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.
Total GPU spend on the failed brute-force attempts was around $15.
The recovery happened when the user “dumped my whole college computer into Claude” as a last-ditch effort.
The AI assistant found an old wallet backup from December 2019 that the user had encrypted with a password already written down in a notebook.
The old password decrypted the old backup, which contained the same …