Is Claude AI the key to recovering forgotten Bitcoin wallets?
The post Is Claude AI the key to recovering forgotten Bitcoin wallets? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. An X user, Cprkrn, who posted on May 13, 2026, claimed that claude.ai just helped him crack the password to his old digital wallet. He tagged Anthropic and said he would name his kid after its CEO, Dario Amodei. The post got millions of views within hours, and the story behind it was even better than the announcement. Cprkrn bought Bitcoin back in his college days, when each coin was around $250, and changed the password to his wallet but forgot it completely. He then spent the next 11+ years trying to recover it. He later revealed the password publicly as “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” and said he had been locked out of $398,000 by a friend’s ideas of a secure password. The AI solution after 11 years Cprkrn said he had spent years trying to reclaim the password and worked through trillions of potential combinations. He adopted popular tools BTCRecover (an open-source Bitcoin wallet