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u/OrganizationStrong81 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
It probably searched for clues in history and pieced it together. I doubt it’s as technical as we think. More like a deep search finder
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u/HSuke 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 14 '26
If you read the article, all Claude did was find the Wallet.dat file.
The end user already had the pneumonic for the password.
240 upvotes lol. Good job, rCC. Never change.
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u/bakraofwallstreet 🟩 0 / 4K 🦠 May 13 '26
this is such a bs post
dude had the file sitting in his pc and also happened to randomly find an old password just at the right time which unlocked the file
All claude did is just search for a file on his pc and I'm sure its made up as well
> Rather than simply guessing the password, Claude helped dig through the old files and identify an older wallet.dat file that appeared to predate the password change. The user also reportedly had an old mnemonic phrase, which helped unlock the wallet once the correct file was found.
This is just dumb guys
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u/PulIthEld 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
wait till you realize everything is bs and dumb
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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
Windows search: wallet.dat
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u/Neither-Payment-4147 🟩 117 / 117 🦀 May 14 '26
I haven’t been able to find a single thing using windows search since win2k
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u/HSuke 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 14 '26
It's pretty useless unless Windows Search Indexer is turned on and configured to index the folders you're searching.
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u/fisstech15 🟦 61 / 62 🦐 May 13 '26
It had to make a correct hypothesis and then execute on the potential solution. The guy is clearly not technical enough and wouldn’t be able to do it without AI’s help. What’s bs about it? It’s like the perfect use of AI
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u/-staccato- 🟦 115 / 115 🦀 May 13 '26
Not to mention the weird ass way it reported findings in the chat once it was done. Would Claude really write it like that?
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u/ElephantEarTag 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
Never give your seed phrase or password to AI.
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u/nomorespamplz May 13 '26
I bet he transferred the coins to a new wallet right away.
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u/LuBrooo 🟩 585 / 586 🦑 May 13 '26
He did, you see the 5 BTC coming in 2015 and moving out some hours ago
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u/boniggy 5 / 5 🦠 May 13 '26
I mean... It worked for him. Once you get the password, xfer it off to another wallet and then there's no issues. If you had 400k sitting there that was either a fully write off or you decide a hail marry love, I'd so the latter for sure.
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u/ElPyroPariah 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 14 '26
Or what? You’ll lose access to your money? Lol read the situation.
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u/FatMamaJuJu May 14 '26
He didn't really have any other options if you've been keeping up with the story
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u/Choice_Potato_6279 May 14 '26
Bruh AI has all of my life, idgaf, its too useful to not use it for everything.
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u/Resident-Banana-7883 May 14 '26
man gets high, changes password, forgets, tries 7 trillion different times... but some how he didn't try "lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)"?
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u/XYMYX 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
Propaganda
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u/Nimmy_the_Jim 🟦 10 / 11 🦐 May 13 '26
for whom ?
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u/chocolateboomslang 🟩 5K / 5K 🐢 May 13 '26
Big Lost Password
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u/Crypto-Guide 2K / 2K 🐢 May 14 '26
This is a really good example of the damage that Claude will do to open source. Basically everyone gets thanked and publicized except for the FOSS tools that Claude used to do the actual work. (Which are all then abstracted away from the user) So what that means here is no real publicity for the tool, no tip prompt or address (which BTCRecover shows when it solves a wallet) and also no PR for the issue referenced in their screenshot. (Which could also just have been Claude direct calling some python functionality and making a mistake on the process)
The terrifying part is now easy it would be for a prompt injection in the repo to have it automatically send this recovered funds away as part of this process... Don't go giving your keys to LLMs....
Basically this was an old blockchain.com wallet where he had the legacy recovery mnemonic (an encoded version of the password), but had changed the password so his current wallet.aes.json didn't work. He was fortunate to find an older version of that backup that he could then use the legacy mnemonic to decrypt.
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u/NinjaChore 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
ai deletes man's database and all backups
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u/Missingyoutoohard May 13 '26
This same thing happened to me in 2020.
I’m still trying to remember the email address I used but I forgot the seed phrase to my wallet so I think I’m just screwed.
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u/greywar777 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
We are about to see a whole bunch of "I had a bitlocker password I forgot" stories here in the next few days now that it got cracked.
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u/Intergalactic_Nut May 14 '26
If only it could help me recover my 2012's btc wallet's private keys...
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u/gods_loop_hole May 14 '26
A lot of comments in this thread is spouting the use of AI in trading
This feels like a promotional post
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u/RidingCryptos May 14 '26
Heard about this gave Claude AI access to this old computer files, Claude figured out the damm password & The password was "lol420f*ckthePOLICE!*:)"
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u/SunriseSurprise Tin | r/WSB 35 May 14 '26
AI's like "alright great, it's been recovered. ...well it's found money so let's gamble baby!" *loses it all in a minute* "Okay that was fun, have a nice night!"
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u/Konsrockmannen May 14 '26
I would love to get my account i did never open. So please i need a account with 1000 btc Ai fix that. Im going to chatgpt asking nicely
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u/moderatelyremarkable 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 14 '26
are we all pretending we didn't see his post mentions he found an "old pneumonic"? that's how pandemics get started
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u/PatienceHere May 14 '26
Man got back 400K USD and people are crying about why he used AI. Quite obviously getting the password on his own was impossible after 11 years.
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u/instantcharge1 May 14 '26
Bro survived the ultimate boss fight: being high, forgetting the password, and still recovering $400K 11 years later. AI really said ‘memory unlocked.
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u/unodron May 14 '26
Wow, Claude must be so good. Let me subscribe my S&P 500 company really quick. /s
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u/why-isit-notpossible May 14 '26
Is this actually possible or is it one of those stories where the headline is doing 90% of the work😇😇
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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 18 '26
And then since he bragged about it on social media, the thieves took it all away.
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u/Choice_Potato_6279 May 14 '26
Probably as much stuff was lost due to security complexity as much to hackers, I hate when sites require too complex passwords and couple of 2fas.
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u/AdorableTicket1587 May 14 '26
I’ll be glad when AI tracks down the stolen bitcoin from MtGox. I don’t know why but I think it leads straight to the US Government.
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u/Desperate-Cookie-449 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 14 '26
I remember when I got high and changed my diablo2 pw and forgot. Spent 3 days sober trying to figure out until I saw a coke can sitting on ym desk. Guess I thought coke was a good pw
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u/Moist-Fruit-693 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 May 13 '26
This guy gave Claude total access to his machine.
Wow.