Key Highlights
- A Bitcoin holder claims to have regained access to a wallet containing 5 BTC after more than 11 years.
- The user said Anthropic’s Claude AI identified a password-processing issue in the recovery workflow.
- At current prices, the recovered Bitcoin is worth more than $400,000.
A Bitcoin user claims to have recovered access to a wallet containing 5 BTC after more than 11 years using Anthropic’s Claude AI.
The user, posting on X under the username @cprkrn, shared screenshots and updates on Wednesday, describing the recovery process. The wallet address, 14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6, reportedly received Bitcoin around April 2015.
How the recovery allegedly worked
According to the user, the password was changed while he was in college and was later forgotten. Years of manual attempts and paid recovery services failed to unlock the wallet.
Following this, the user uploaded files from an old college computer to Claude AI as a last resort. As per the shared conversation logs, Claude analyzed the wallet files, flagged the issue in the description tool btcrecover, and highlighted that the password was being processed incorrectly as a concatenation of sharedkey + password.
The post further mentioned that, once the correct decryption logic was applied, the private keys were successfully extracted and converted to WIF format. The AI then confirmed the recovery of 5 BTC, currently valued at over $400K, as per the current market price. The user then showed their gratitude to Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, and thanked them in several posts.
Bitcoin price context
At the time of this writing, Bitcoin was trading around $79,623, down roughly 1.25% in the past 24 hours, as per CoinMarketCap. The asset witnessed a sharp intraday decline, slipping from a high of around $81,276 to a low of $78,725 before a slight recovery.
Regardless of the pullback, Bitcoin keeps a market capitalization of around $1.597 trillion, with 24-hour trading volume standing at $33.7 billion. The price action shows normal market volatility, with Bitcoin retreating from recent highs.
Similar Bitcoin wallet claims
Claims involving forgotten Bitcoin wallets continue to attract attention. Last month, a viral video alleged that the affordable ₹1,000 Jio Phone included a hidden Bitcoin wallet. However, the claim turned out to be false and misleading.
The video originally referred to Cryobrick, an independent open-source project that turns old feature phones into offline Bitcoin signing devices for cold storage.
Although Jio has experimented with crypto rewards like JioCoin in its ecosystem, the company has never rolled out any Bitcoin self-custody solution. Thus, there is no official Bitcoin wallet or cold storage feature built into Reliance Jio phones.
Meanwhile, the latest incident shows how AI tools may assist with technical troubleshooting, including cryptocurrency wallet recovery. At the same time, it highlights the risks of sharing sensitive wallet files with third-party services and the importance of using trusted methods when attempting to recover long-dormant digital assets.
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