Bitcoin Holder Recovers 5 BTC Using Claude AI After 11 Years

A Bitcoin holder, known as cprkrn on X (Twitter), successfully recovered 5 BTC from a wallet locked for over 11 years by utilizing Anthropic's Claude AI, according to BeInCrypto. The AI identified an encrypted wallet file from old college computer files, debugged the open-source tool btcrecover, decrypted the keys, and converted them to Wallet Import Format. Prior to this, cprkrn had spent approximately $250 per failed attempt with commercial services. The recovery, now valued at nearly $400,000 with Bitcoin trading at $79,622, has garnered significant attention, highlighting the potential of AI in specialized cyber tasks.