Holy shit. Claude just recovered 5 Bitcoin that had been lost for 11 years.

3.5 trillion passwords tested.

Not a single one worked.

The guy tried everything:

→ RTX 4090
→ Hashcat
→ btcrecover
→ Old hard drives
→ Gmail
→ iCloud
→ 8 weeks of brute force

Zero results.

As a last resort,

he dumped ALL of his old college files into Claude.

The AI didn’t “hack” the password.

It found an old backup created before the password was changed, identified a bug in btcrecover’s decryption logic, and extracted the correct private keys.

5 BTC.

Locked away for 11 years.

https://mempool.space/address/14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6