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

The crypto investor made Claude search through two Macs, two external hard drives, an Apple Notes export, iCloud Mail, Gmail inbox and X messages to help retrieve the Bitcoin.

A Bitcoiner’s post has gone viral on X after he claimed to use Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude to recover 5 Bitcoin worth about $320,000 that he had been unable to access for more than a decade. 

In an interview with MTS on Wednesday, pseudonymous X user Cprkrn said he made fairly “really complicated passwords” on blockchain.info and forgot one of three passwords after changing it several years ago.

Over the last eight weeks, Cprkrn said he used AI to attempt to brute force “trillions of passwords,” but to no avail.

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