Cryptocurrency14 May 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Claude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years

The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using t…

The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip. A viral X post claiming that Anthropic’s Claude “cracked” a bitcoin wallet is misleading, as the AI merely helped the owner locate an old wallet backup file on their own computer. The wallet was ultimately unlocked using a password the owner had already written down, and the recovered back…

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