Millennial Recovers Lost Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years Using Anthropic's Claude AI
A millennial user successfully recovered access to a Bitcoin wallet containing five bitcoins after being locked out for over eleven years, utilizing Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude. The incident, reported in May 2026, originated from a 2014 event where the user, identified only by the X handle 'cprkrn', changed his wallet password while intoxicated and subsequently forgot it. Despite attempting approximately 3.5 to 7 trillion password combinations over the decade without success, the user turned to Claude as a last resort. By uploading data from his old college computer, the AI helped identify an old wallet file that matched a seed phrase found in a physical notebook. The recovered password was revealed to be 'lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)'. The wallet activity was confirmed on-chain after years of dormancy. This case highlights the growing utility of large language models in personal data recovery and underscores Anthropic's increasing prominence in the competitive AI landscape, alongside major players like Microsoft and OpenAI, as noted by UBS analysts.
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