Anthropic's Claude AI recovered access to a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC locked since 2015. The owner uploaded files from an old college computer. Claude identified the wallet file, debugged btcrecover by adding concatenation with a sharedKey value, ran the adjusted decryption, extracted the private keys, and converted them to WIF format. Control of address 14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6 was restored after nine years.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
My wallet with my locked btc from 9 years ago lol 😭😭😭 https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
Many users praise Claude AI for recovering a locked 9-year-old Bitcoin wallet with 5 BTC because it shows real-world utility and value, while others dismiss the story as fake or object to expensive usage fees.
This is literally insane
guy had 5 BTC locked in a wallet for 9 years
dumped his old college computer into Claude as a hail mary
Claude found the wallet file, debugged btcrecover's password logic, decrypted the keys, converted to WIF, recovered the funds
We are so unbelievably early
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
@AnthropicAI Last tweet + muting, asked Claude to summarize our recovery efforts:
TLDR, tried ~3.5 trillion passwords + none worked, ended up matching an old seed phrase found in a college notebook with an old wallet file 🙂
I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao
Found this old pneumonic a few weeks ago that ended up being the old password before I changed it
Thought I was screwed
Last ditch effort dumped my whole college computer into Claude
It found an OLD wallet file that the pneumonic successfully decrypted
Locked out 11+ years because I got stoned and changed the password
Spent $250 on each lol
HOLY FUCK
@KhanAbbas201 I bet ChatGPT would have stolen the Bitcoin and sent it directly to Sam Altman.
Holy sh*t: Claude brought back his lost BTC.
Worth almost $400k .
Which means he can now afford roughly one intense weekend of Claude Code usage.
Insane.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
Seriously shoutout @AnthropicAI
Ended up being the most obvious opening ever lol
But I would’ve been too dumb to figure it out 😂
@KhanAbbas201 That must have felt so good
Claude was as happy as he was.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
@KhanAbbas201 @menhguin I mean, it really just used btcrecover, which has been around for a while. It’s not like Claude wrote the decryption script itself.
@EdTheOSINTer @menhguin I think the way it followed the entire structure and used all the tools in the right manner is very fascinating.
@cprkrn @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei Amazing. Now let's try other people's wallets
@samsrepx @AnthropicAI Skeptical but how would I hypothetically claim
@cprkrn @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei Awesome, bro! I have a friend who owned 500 BTC and spent them all to finance her bachelor’s degree. Should have kept five and she’d own more than she’ll ever make.
@KhanAbbas201 For context though, Claude did not crack a seed phrase. It decrypted a local file on a device he had the phrase on. So your wallet is not at a security risk.
@barnabasdotexe uffff
@KhanAbbas201 wif format rather than dog wif hat lol *
had to read the post to clarify as i was like huh
@punished_daniel @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei I’m d
@icobeast @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei Real
@Greenwud2 https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6
@wociin @wannn74921 @samsrepx @AnthropicAI How to log in with GitHub?
