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AI Helps Bitcoin Holder Recover $400,000 Wallet After 11 Years

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Nidhi Kolhapur

A longtime Bitcoin holder says Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover access to a wallet containing about 5 BTC, now worth roughly $400,000, after more than a decade of failed attempts. The user had spent weeks brute-forcing passwords before uploading files from an old computer into Claude, which identified a forgotten wallet backup. The backup matched recovery details already written in a notebook, allowing the wallet to be unlocked. The case highlights AI’s growing usefulness in digital forensics and data recovery rather than breaking cybersecurity itself.


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Nidhi Kolhapur

Qadir Ak is the founder of Coinpedia. He has over a decade of experience writing about technology and has been covering the blockchain and cryptocurrency space since 2010. He has also interviewed a few prominent experts within the cryptocurrency space.

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