Claude Allegedly Cracks a Bitcoin Wallet Locked for Nearly a Decade, Recovering $400K

A viral claim that Claude AI helped recover 5 BTC — worth approximately $400,000 — from a wallet that had been inaccessible for nearly ten years is circulating widely, raising questions about AI-assisted cryptographic recovery and security implications.

One of the most attention-grabbing claims on AI Twitter Wednesday came from @cprkrn, who posted in breathless all-caps that Claude had "cracked" access to a Bitcoin wallet containing 5 BTC that had been locked for roughly a decade. The post included what appears to be a Bitcoin address and went viral almost immediately. The claim was corroborated — or at least amplified — by @coinspace_, a Japanese-language crypto outlet, which reported the same story: a man used Claude AI to recover approximately $400,000 in Bitcoin from a long-inaccessible wallet.

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