“Cprkrn” had 5 bitcoins in a cryptocurrency wallet. 11 years ago, at a time when he was “high”, he decided to change his password — and never remembered it again. He asked the AI for help in discovering it. 3.5 billion attempts later, he managed to regain access to the locked wallet.
It’s quite rare to hear positive stories about artificial intelligence, but there is at least one person grateful for the proliferation of great language models.
An X user, with the name cprkrnthis week he forgot his wallet password 11 years ago, and has now managed to access his cryptocurrencies with the help of Claude AI.
The user says that he was prevented from accessing his wallet “after having smoked some joints” and changed your password. Obviously, you forgot it.
A few weeks ago, cprkrn found an ancient mnemonic who realized that matched your previous password. He turned to artificial intelligence to try to solve the problem, and uploaded all the content to Claude AI from the computer he used at university.
Anthropic’s artificial intelligence discovered that an old file of the portfolio, dated December 2019, it was the missing piece. Apparently, this file contained the necessary private keys to access the Blockchain.com wallet that held 5 BTC, purchased in 2015.
Bitcoin was worth around 250 dollars at the time, something like 215 euros. The 1250 dollars that were then worth 5 bitcoins, just over 1000 euros, are now worth 400 thousand dollars — almost 350 thousand euros.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU THANK YOU NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
— 🍜 (@cprkrn)
The user has tried for years regain access through “brute force” with btcrecover, an open source tool for recovering Bitcoin wallets, which I had already tested an absurd number of combinations.
Apparently, Claude actually solved the problem at the expense of “brute force”: he did nothing less than 3.5 billion attempts of guessing the password, none of which is sufficient, by itself, to solve the problem, says .
But finally, the old mnemonic coincided with addresses associated with a specific file. Claude then found a backup copy old and detected an error in setting the password which resulted in the shared key and candidate passwords not being matched correctly. Once this flaw was fixed, the wallet was able to be decrypted.
In the euphoric publication in X marking the recovery, cprkrn thanked Anthropic and its executive director, Dario Amodeiand says, probably joking, that if he has a son he will name him Dario.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call him Claudio.
