Claude reunites stoner with Bitcoin after losing password

Dude… where’s my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash

AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files

Eleven years ago, a stoner bought some Bitcoin, lit up, and entered a password that he soon forgot. Now, after searching for more than a decade, Claude AI has helped him figure out the credentials he needed to gain access to a crypto wallet containing currency that is now worth a whopping $400,000.

The man, who retains an anonymous online profile only going by the alias “cprkrn,” vowed to name his progeny after Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, all because the AI tool helped him regain access to an Obama-era wallet he thought was impenetrable.

Armed only with an old mnemonic phrase, the man plugged it into Claudeand told the AI to search his computer for ways he could use it to figure...

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