AI helps man recover $400,000 in Bitcoin 11 years after he got high and forgot password
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A man regained access to $400,000 in Bitcoin after using Anthropic's Claude AI to locate an old, accessible wallet file from his college computer.Summary
A cryptocurrency user known as Cprkrn successfully recovered 5 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $400,000, after being locked out of his wallet for 11 years. The user had forgotten the password he created while under the influence during his college years. After failing to crack the password for over a decade despite trying trillions of combinations, he uploaded his old college computer files to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The AI successfully identified an older wallet.dat file that predated the password change, which, combined with a mnemonic phrase the user had recently found, allowed him to regain access to the funds.
(Source：Dexerto)