Bitcoin investor Cprkrn announced that he recovered 5 Bitcoins, which he could not access for nearly ten years, as a result of an artificial intelligence-supported process. This development spread rapidly on social media on the X platform. Cprkrn tried to find his forgotten complex passwords by using the artificial intelligence chatbot named Claude, which was developed by Anthropic and has become increasingly popular recently.
Support from artificial intelligence for wallet password
Cprkrn stated that he changed and forgot one of the three different complex passwords he created on blockchain.info years ago, so he could not access his Bitcoin wallet for years. He stated that he and Claude had tried billions of passwords in different ways in the last eight weeks, but were unsuccessful. He said that in this process, he tested approximately 34 billion passwords with the brute force method using the open source BTCRecover application and Python software, and that Claude helped understand the passwords.
Bitcoiners not being able to access their wallets is a common situation in the cryptocurrency community. According to industry reports, between 2.3 million and 4 million Bitcoins are unavailable. This corresponds to approximately 11 to 19 percent of the total supply. These losses usually occur due to forgotten passwords, burned keywords or other reasons.
Trillions of passwords, old notebooks and data scanned
Cprkrn, who could not get results with other methods, presented his old notebooks from his university years, his old laptop and all the digital data he had accumulated over the years on various devices to Claude for help. Claude searched two different Mac computers, two external drives, Apple Notes imports, iCloud Mail, Gmail and X messages. In total, approximately more than 1 gigabyte of data was scanned.
An important backup file dated December 2019 was found on the old computer, one of these devices. With the help of a password derived from the mnemonic phrase in his notebooks, Cprkrn, accompanied by Claude, decrypted this file and obtained the recovery key of the wallet, which had been dormant for a long time.
After all, the wallet was opened and Bitcoin was moved
Cprkrn did not directly share any evidence that Claude was scanning on its devices. However, he did post a link showing the transaction on Blockchain.com. The information shows that 5 Bitcoins from the address “14VJy…ofuE6” were moved in five different transactions on May 13. These Bitcoins have not shown any movement since the beginning of 2015.
It was stated that during the AI-assisted recovery, Claude tried a total of 3.4 trillion more passwords with different password recovery software. All these experiments and operations were carried out with an AI transaction cost of only $15. Although Cprkrn argued that Claude made a significant contribution to the search process, some community members claimed that artificial intelligence only supports finding data in files and does not serve the actual password cracking function.
Reddit user MeteorSwarmGallifrey commented, “Claude did nothing but search his files, no groundbreaking achievement.”
This whole process has brought up the possibility of recovering forgotten or lost crypto assets with the help of artificial intelligence. According to experts, in the crypto world, services focused on finding lost balances from old devices or notes have begun to attract serious attention.
