Claude Helps Recover a Bitcoin Wallet Dormant for Nearly 9 Years, Containing Approximately 5 BTC

According to Decrypt, X platform user “Cprkrn” claimed that Anthropic’s Claude helped them recover a dormant Bitcoin wallet that had been inactive for nearly nine years, containing approximately 5 BTC—worth roughly $400,000. On-chain data shows the wallet address beginning with “14VJyS” had not conducted any transactions since 2015—until today. The report notes that available screenshots do not indicate Claude cracked Bitcoin’s underlying cryptography; rather, it likely assisted in analyzing encrypted wallet files, mnemonic phrase clues, and password recovery procedures. Previously, Cprkrn had attempted—and failed—to recover the wallet using btcrecover and Hashcat. Industry insiders suggest this case is closer to historical data organization and forensic analysis than direct “cracking” of Bitcoin encryption.