It's truly mind-blowing š¤Æ
A dude just reclaimed 5 BTC ($400,000) that was stuck in his wallet for 11 years.
Back in 2015, he got high, changed the password, and forgot it the next morning. The coins have been sitting there, untouched, ever since.
He tried 3.5 trillion combinations with brute force. Paid recovery services. Nothing worked. He gave up.
Yesterday, in a last-ditch effort, he uploaded his old college hard drive to Claude.
Claude dug through the files, found an old backup wallet, figured out the encryption format, and cracked it on the first try.
$400,000. Recovered by an AI bot.