AI chatbot Claude helps man recover 5 Bitcoin after finding old seed phrase

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Industry reports predict that between 2.3 million and 4 million Bitcoin (BTC) are inaccessible, representing roughly 11% to 19% of the cryptocurrency’s maximum supply because of forgotten or lost seed phrases, burned coins or other reasons. There are entire businesses dedicated to helping cryptocurrency users recover lost coins. Cprkrn’s seed phrase hunt was conducted over eight weeks, with Claude helping him search two Macs, two external hard drives, an Apple Notes export, iCloud Mail, a Gmail inbox and X messages, totaling more than 1 gigabyte of data. One of those devices was his college computer, on which Claude discovered a critical wallet backup file from December 2019. From there, Cprkrn, with Claude’s assistance, managed to decrypt the file using a password derived from a notebook mnemonic, enabling him to find the seed phrase for the long-dormant Bitcoin wallet. While Cprkrn didn’t provide direct evidence of Claude searching through his devices, he shared a link from Blockchain.com’s Bitcoin explorer showing that about 5 Bitcoin was transferred from wallet address “14VJy…ofuE6” across five transactions on May 13. Prior to those transactions, the coins had been dormant since early 2015. The recovery came after Claude unsuccessfully used BTCRecover — an open-source seed recovery tool — and the software program Python to test around 34 billion passwords with brute force. Related: Bitcoin whale 'still short' BTC despite facing $13M in losses Claude also used password recovery tool Hashcat to test another 3.4 trillion passwords, which also proved unsuccessful. Just $15 in AI compute was used to conduct the searches and test passwords, according to Claude’s summary of the recovery efforts. Source: Cprkrn Despite the success, some members of the crypto community said Cprkrn overstated Claude’s role in retrieving the Bitcoin, arguing that it only assisted with the searching efforts and didn’t crack the wallet as Cprkrn suggested. “Claude didn't do anything other than search his files,” Reddit user MeteorSwarmGallifrey said in the technology subreddit, adding that Claude didn’t do anything “groundbreaking.” Magazine: eToro founder timed Bitcoin top perfectly due to belief in 4 year cycles More on the subject

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