- Claude from Anthropic identified and fixed a bug that was preventing the user from regaining access to their Bitcoin– a wallet with 5 BTC worth $400,000.
- The newly wealthy man promised to name his son after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
An artificial intelligence and cybersecurity tool has brought joy back to a Bitcoin owner. Twitter user cprkrn, who has been unable to access his own for over 11 years. Bitcoin- wallet with 5 BTC, successfully returned the coins using the artificial intelligence Claude from Anthropic.
A user would hardly have been able to achieve what artificial intelligence could do by simply searching through words.
More than ten years ago, a college student, heavily intoxicated, changed his wallet password. The next morning, he couldn’t remember the new password. Over the following years, he made numerous attempts to regain access, trying approximately 3,5 trillion combinations and spending hundreds of dollars on commercial recovery services. But all to no avail.
Recently he found He found the previous seed words in his student notebook, which allowed him to restore the wallet file from old computer backups. However, the file was encrypted with a forgotten password.
The artificial intelligence tool Claude took up the matter.
In desperation, the user decided to use the artificial intelligence tool Claude, which turned to the popular open-source recovery service btcrecover for help.
Unlike a standard script, Claude acted as a technical auditor. He analyzed the recovery logs and identified a critical syntax error: btcrecover was incorrectly retrieving password data. The shared key and password were combined in the wrong order on the command line.
After Claude corrected the decryption command to properly handle the public key and password, the private keys were successfully decrypted. As the screenshot shows, the AI converted the keys to Wallet Import Format (WIF), allowing the user to move the long-frozen funds.
During the recovery process, a password was discovered that had remained inaccessible for ten years: lol420fuckthePOLICE!* 🙂 Having gained access to the wallet, the user immediately transferred 5 BTC to a new secure address.
A happy Cprkrn promised to name his child after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whose work made him $400,000 richer.
Of course, large language models (LLM) are useful in solving complex logical errors, but in the editorial Happy Coin News They believe that it is more reliable and effective to carefully store seed words and passwords to files containing them.
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