A guy got stoned in college, changed his Bitcoin wallet password, and forgot it. He bought 5 BTC at a Starbucks in 2013 for $250 each.


For 11 years he tried everything; brute force tools, professional recovery services, 7 trillion password combinations. Nothing worked.
Last ditch effort: he uploaded his entire college laptop, old notebooks and cloud archives into Claude and let it run for 8 weeks.
Claude eventually found an old backup file that an older mnemonic could decrypt.
The password was “lol420fuckthePOLICE!:)”*
He now has $400,000 in Bitcoin.
There are millions of BTC sitting in lost wallets. If AI can systematically reunite people with old data, a significant chunk of what we assume is permanently lost supply might come back online.
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