Claude helps recover 5 bitcoins! "AI unlocks dusty wallet" post goes viral, but the truth is...

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Losing a recovery phrase and watching millions in wealth vanish before one's eyes is a pain felt deeply by many veterans of the crypto world. Recently, however, a viral post on social platform X delivered a movie-like reversal of fortune. A user claimed that, with the help of AI model Claude, he successfully recovered Bitcoin worth $400,000 that had been locked away for nearly 9 years. Posting under the alias "Cprkrn," the user exclaimed: "Oh my god, Claude actually did it!" In his post, he not only tagged developer Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei, but also attached an old post from August 2023, proving that he had long been trying to crack open a wallet that had been "deeply locked" since 2015. On-chain data also confirmed that this Bitcoin address, beginning with "14VJyS," had indeed remained completely dormant for 9 years, only recently coming back to life and successfully transferring out 5 Bitcoin. The thread quickly attracted over 6 million views, sparking heated discussion among netizens: can large language models really assist with recovering encrypted files and forgotten passwords? However, a careful examination of the screenshots he shared reveals no evidence that Claude directly "hacked" through Bitcoin's impenetrable underlying cryptographic defenses. Rather, the AI acted more like a powerful digital assistant, helping the user navigate the tedious process of organizing encrypted files and password recovery. According to the post, Cprkrn had previously made repeated attempts using btcrecover and Hashcat (two professional software tools often used by security personnel for brute-force cracking or testing passwords on encrypted data) to unlock the wallet, all in vain. Finally, he fed the massive trove of files from his old college-era computer into Claude for analysis. Unexpectedly, the AI successfully identified a wallet file from among them that was associated with the "recovery phrase" on his old laptop. "This wallet had been locked for over 11 years, all because back then I was high on weed and, in a daze, changed the password," he joked. After the AI found the key file, the recovery phrase successfully unlocked the wallet. "And it turned out the way to unlock it was an embarrassingly obvious oversight — it's just too hilarious." Although the user sang the AI's praises, security experts who specialize in wallet recovery have pointed out the blind spot: throughout the entire unlocking process, how much credit can truly be attributed to Claude? After all, the user himself already held the wallet file, the recovery phrase, and the historical data needed to reconstruct the password. One security expert stated: What Claude is really doing is most likely performing massive filtering through complex historical data and identifying clues related to old wallet credentials or password formats. Rather than calling it "password cracking," it's more accurate to describe it as "digital forensics and data classification." The reason this incident has drawn such high market attention lies in the background context: Anthropic just launched its "Claude Mythos" model last month, which emphasizes advanced security features. The new model is marketed as being able to precisely identify software vulnerabilities and autonomously complete advanced cybersecurity defense tasks, leaving outside observers with vivid imaginations about Claude's ability to handle complex analysis. However, this wave of "AI mythology" was harshly mocked by many rational netizens on the community forum Reddit, who felt the viral post grossly exaggerated the AI's actual contribution to the recovery process. One netizen commented: Claude didn't do anything earth-shattering at all — it just helped him "search" his files. This kind of sensationalized, vague framing only misleads gullible people into thinking AI has achieved yet another great feat. Another netizen pointed out: "Now you understand why the general public loves AI so much, right? This isn't a technological revolution at all — it simply caters perfectly to humanity's innate laziness." In any case, this post has indeed successfully captured global attention, once again putting the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency at the center of discussion — except the truth may be far less sci-fi than the headline suggests.

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