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Bitcoin Owner Claims Claude AI Cracked Lost Wallet Password, Netting $400K in BTC
BTC
BTC/USDT
$75,492.01
+8.02%
$75,492.01
+8.02%
(24s)24h Volume
$40,439,650,135.92
24h H/L
$75,785.82 / $69,506.91
Change: $6,278.91 (9.03%)
Long/Short
51.0%
Long: 51.0%Short: 49.0%
Funding Rate
+0.0051%
Longs pay
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Decrypt Editorial(10:06 PM UTC)
1 min read
In brief
- An X user claimed Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover access to a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC worth roughly $400,000.
- The viral posts generated more than 6 million views and sparked debate over AI’s role in crypto wallet recovery.
- Recovery experts said the screenshots appear to show AI-assisted file analysis rather than Claude “cracking” Bitcoin encryption.
An X thread claiming…
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