A Bitcoin holder known as @cprkrn has regained access to about 5 BTC after being locked out of his wallet for 11 years. The key to recovery was Claude, the AI assistant from Anthropic.
The investor forgot a complicated password he created during a drunken night at college on blockchain.info. He exhausted roughly 7 trillion password combinations through manual attempts and brute-force software. None worked.
Fortune turned when he fed old college notes and laptop files to Claude. The AI identified the missing link between an archived wallet file and a partially incomplete seed phrase, successfully decrypting the wallet.
Bought for $200 at a Starbucks in 2013, the Bitcoin stash is now valued at over $395,000. On-chain data shows the investor transferred his holdings out of the old wallet into Hyperunit after restoring access.
The wallet recovery is part of a growing trend of AI being applied to crypto access. Elsewhere, some are exploring attempts to infer Satoshi Nakamoto's private keys, an approach widely considered impractical and ethically concerning.