Claude AI Helps Trader Recover $400,000 in Bitcoin Trapped Since 2015
A decade-long crypto nightmare ended this week when an X user known as @cprkrn recovered 5 Bitcoin worth approximately $400,000 locked in a wallet. While not quite the Bitcoin haul of a former police officer convicted last summer of stealing more than $6 million in Bitcoin, it is still a hefty chunk of change. The recovery was not because an AI broke encryption, but because it did something arguably more useful: it cleaned up a college student's very messy digital attic.
The backstory is perhaps equal parts relatable and painful for many former college students. While in college, @cprkrn changed his Bitcoin wallet's password while intoxicated and forgot the new one. He still had his original mnemonic recovery phrase, "lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)," but it no longer opened the current wallet file. Over the following years, he spent roughly $250 per failed attempt at commercial recovery services and jokingly estimated he had tried...
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