Overview
- The pseudonymous holder, who posts as @cprkrn, moved roughly 5 BTC on Wednesday after Claude sifted old college-era files and surfaced an older wallet backup.
- Public records on Blockchain.com show five transactions from the long-dormant address, confirming the outflow after no activity since 2015.
- Reporters and recovery experts say Claude acted as a forensic assistant by finding a 2019 backup that opened with a mnemonic recovery phrase and a password the owner already had, including the now-public string “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)”.
- Before the breakthrough, the owner tried weeks of brute-force runs with BTCRecover and Hashcat that tested trillions of variants for about $15, and Claude also flagged a recovery-tool logic issue that had blocked progress.
- The episode has renewed warnings about uploading wallet files or seed phrases to AI services and prompted discussion about millions of inaccessible bitcoins and whether cheap AI triage could change the wallet-recovery market.