Man Recovers $400K Bitcoin Wallet Using Claude AI

A California man recovered a Bitcoin wallet worth over $400,000 after it sat locked for 11 years, using Anthropic's Claude AI to locate a buried wallet file in his old college computer backup. He had forgotten the password he set during an intoxicated night and tried 3.5 trillion combinations before turning to AI. The story went viral with over 13 million views after the user posted his jubilant reaction on X. Experts clarified Claude did not crack Bitcoin's cryptography but performed advanced file analysis, locating the wallet file that allowed decryption using a previously found mnemonic seed phrase.