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Did Claude Just 'Crack' a Bitcoin Wallet? AI Tool Helps Find 5 BTC Stuck for Years

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The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.

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The incredible story of the user "cprkrn" has gone viral after revealing that he managed to regain access to 5 Bitcoins, which are now worth close to $400,000. For over a decade, the user tried every possible way to open the wallet that was locked after he changed his password and forgot the new details. He testified that he tried no less than 3.5 trillion password combinations, hired professional recovery services and endlessly searched throug…

A man who had forgotten his password and was unable to access his Bitcoin wallet shared a story about how he recovered it with the help of Anthropic's AI chatbot, "Claude."

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One user managed to recover BTC 5, valued at almost $400,000, more than a decade after losing access to his wallet. The key was not to violate Bitcoin, but to use Claude to review old files, find a wallet.dat prior to password change and combine it with an old mnemonic phrase. *** The user claimed that he recovered BTC 5 locked for 11 years with the help of Claude, Anthropic's chatbot. The AI did not break Bitcoin's security, but helped identify…

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Crypto Adventure broke the news on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
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