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Did Claude just 'crack' a bitcoin wallet? AI tool helps find 5 BTC stuck for years
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CoinDesk Staff(05:34 AM UTC)
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0 commentsClaude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years
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.
A viral X post is claiming Claude 'cracked' a forgotten bitcoin wallet to recover 5 BTC from a user's computer.
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