A millennial used Anthropic's Claude to crack the password to his Bitcoin wallet after locking himself out for more than 11 years.
Back in 2014, the X user "cprkrn," who did not identify himself, explained that he had a crypto wallet on an old computer, got stoned one night, changed the password, and forgot it. He triedtrillionsof password guesses over the years with no luck.
"I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao. Found this old pneumonic a few weeks ago that ended up being the old password before I changed it. Thought I was screwed. Last-ditch effort dumped my whole college computer into Claude," cprkrn said.
He noted, "It found an OLD wallet file that the pneumonic successfully decrypted. Locked out 11+ years because I got stoned and changed the password."
The password turned out to be: lol420fuckthePOLICE!* ...
Best part is the password was:lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Here are the prompts in Claude that helped the man retrieve five lost Bitcoins…
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU@AnthropicAITHANK YOU@DarioAmodeiNAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍https://t.co/gObNirRDpShttps://t.co/ByTdIM4d20pic.twitter.com/xB5LUJb6Pe
And here is proof: the wallet went active on Wednesday after being dormant for a decade.
Last tweet + muting, asked Claude to summarize our recovery efforts:TLDR, tried ~3.5 trillion passwords + none worked, ended up matching an old seed phrase found in a college notebook with an old wallet file 🙂pic.twitter.com/iOaIIVsiHd
Source: ZeroHedge News
