A Bitcoin holder has gone viral after claiming he recovered around $400,000 in BTC from a wallet that had been locked for more than a decade, with help from Anthropic\u2019s AI chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n
The user, known as Cprkrn on X, shared the wild crypto recovery story on May 13, saying Claude helped him regain access to 5 Bitcoin<\/a> after years of failed attempts.<\/p>\n \u201cHoly f***king sh*t omg Claude just cracked this sht,\u201d he wrote in the viral post, thanking Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $79,600, putting the 5 BTC recovery at roughly $398,000.<\/p>\n Man uses Claude to recover $400K worth of lost Bitcoin<\/p>\n According to the thread, the wallet had been locked since the user\u2019s college days. He said he originally bought the crypto<\/a> when it was worth around $250 per coin, before losing access after changing the wallet password while high.<\/p>\n The password, as later revealed in the post, was: \u201clol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n The user said he had tried for years to recover the funds, claiming he ran through trillions of possible password combinations. However, the breakthrough reportedly came when he uploaded files from his old college computer into Claude.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n Rather than simply guessing the password, Claude helped dig through the old files and identify an older wallet.dat file that appeared to predate the password change. The user also reportedly had an old mnemonic phrase, which helped unlock the wallet once the correct file was found.<\/p>\n I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao<\/p>\n Found this old pneumonic a few weeks ago that ended up being the old password before I changed it<\/p>\n Thought I was screwed<\/p>\n Last ditch effort dumped my whole college computer into Claude<\/p>\n It found an OLD wallet file that the pneumonic\u2026<\/p>\n