"A bitcoin holder known on X as @cprkrn recovered approximately 5 BTC, valued between $400,000 and $500,000, from a wallet he had been locked out of for more than 11 years, crediting Anthropic's Claude AI with solving a technical problem that had resisted every other attempt."
"Claude fixed a btcrecover bug to decrypt a legacy P2PKH wallet locked since 2014 or 2015. The wallet, tied to address 14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6, had been inaccessible since roughly 2014 or 2015. While in college, @cprkrn changed the wallet's password while intoxicated and forgot the new one. He still had an old mnemonic, lol420fu**thePOLICE!*:), but it no longer opened the current wallet file."
"His approach was direct. He uploaded the full contents of his old college computer, including files, notebooks, and backups, into Claude. The AI located an older wallet file that predated the password change and identified why the mnemonic no longer worked on the current file. The technical problem came down to how the password was being processed."
"The btcrecover tool, a widely used open-source bitcoin wallet recovery utility, was concatenating a shared key with the password in an incorrect order. Claude identified the bug, corrected the decryption logic, ran the proc"
A Bitcoin holder recovered about 5 BTC worth roughly $400,000 to $500,000 from a wallet inaccessible for more than 11 years. The wallet was tied to a legacy P2PKH address and had been locked since around 2014 or 2015 after a password was changed and forgotten. The holder had an old mnemonic but it no longer opened the current wallet file. After many failed password attempts and paid recovery attempts, the holder used Anthropic’s Claude AI. Claude analyzed an older wallet file found in uploaded computer backups and identified why the mnemonic failed. The issue was traced to btcrecover decrypting by concatenating a shared key with the password in the wrong order, and Claude corrected the logic to successfully decrypt the wallet.
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