Key Takeaways:
X user @cprkrn recovered roughly 5 BTC worth up to $500K on May 13, 2026, using Anthropic’s Claude AI.Claude fixed a btcrecover bug to decrypt a legacy P2PKH wallet locked since 2014 or 2015.The recovery shows Claude can handle niche technical tasks, raising new hope for holders with old wallets.His approach was direct. He uploaded the full contents of his old college computer, including files, notebooks, and backups, into Claude. The AI located an older wallet file that predated the password change and identified why the mnemonic no longer worked on the current file.
“Just mega dump all of your computers and notebooks into Claude,” @cprkrn wrote in a follow-up post, summarizing the method for others in similar situations.
@cprkrn described the process as a last-ditch effort after months of digging through old files. In a separate post he added, “Step 1. Download Claude. Step 2. Mega dump all of your information and pray.”
@cprkrn closed the thread by thanking Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, directly. “Naming my kid after you,” he wrote.
