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Claude AI Helps Unlock Forgotten Bitcoin Wallet

David Constantino

Editor's Choice

May 14, 2026

4–6 minutes

Claude AI Helps Unlock Forgotten Bitcoin Wallet

Claude AI Helps Unloc...

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Claude AI Helps Unlock Forgotten Bitcoin Wallet

David Constantino

Editor's Choice

May 14, 2026

4–6 minutes

Claude AI Helps Unlock Forgotten Bitcoin Wallet

Claude AI Helps Unlock Forgotten Bitcoin Wallet

May 14, 2026

David Constantino

Key Takeaways

Anthropic’s Claude helped recover a

wallet that had been locked since 2015, containing nearly $400,000 in BTC.

The wallet was recovered after Claude reviewed old files, backups, and clues about the owner’s forgotten password.

AI did not hack Bitcoin’s security; it simply helped connect missing information faster than older recovery tools could.

A Bitcoin wallet that had been dormant for nearly a decade suddenly came back to life after its owner claimed that Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude helped recover access to the funds. The wallet reportedly held around 5 BTC, valued at close to $400,000 at current market prices.

This guy was locked out of ~5 BTC for 11 years.

Last ditch effort: dumped his old college computer into Claude.

Claude found the old wallet file and cracked it.

Insane.

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— Min Choi (@minchoi)

May 13, 2026

The story spread rapidly across the crypto community after an X user known as “Cprkrn” posted that Claude had solved a recovery problem that traditional password recovery tools had failed to crack for years. Screenshots shared online showed the user celebrating the breakthrough and personally thanking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for finally regaining access to the long-lost wallet.

Wallet Had Been Dormant Since 2015

Blockchain

records confirm the Bitcoin address had not moved funds since 2015, until it suddenly became active again this week. The recovered holdings totaled roughly 5 BTC, with estimates placing the value between $395,000 and $500,000 depending on Bitcoin’s market price at the time of recovery.

According to the owner, the wallet had been locked for years after a password change made during coll

来源: Brave/usethebitcoin.com

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