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Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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> Their luck changed for the better when they found an old mnemonic seed phrase written in an old college notebook TBF the real breakthrough was finding this, though no doubt they couldn't have recovered without Claude

I bet the majority of people reading this really think Claude cracked the encryption.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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I'm really thankful I put my bitcoin in a time vault back in 2012 or so. It was inaccessible until about last year, and my $10 is now worth $100k. Thank you MtGox.

> MtGox Whew, that brings me back! I still think about the Bitcoin my buddy paid me for his half of a pizza ~15 years ago... worth 6 figures now haha.

I have a cousin who received around 2 BTC after playing some cards with some people. Wasn't worth much at the time. He sold the coins immediately.

Better not to dwell on such things.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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> Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup Man. I wish I had a lost wallet worth a quarter of that even, technically didn't need Claude for this, just needed any password cracking software.

I'm really thankful I put my bitcoin in a time vault back in 2012 or so. It was inaccessible until about last year, and my $10 is now worth $100k. Thank you MtGox.

A friend lost £2000 worth of BTC in MtGox which is probably worth a fortune at today's prices. The last time I spoke with him he said there was some sort of lawsuit for victim compensation. How did you recover your funds?

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Same... I had chatgpt go over my taxes (I do it myself) and it found a number of savings I qualified for

Can you explain the steps you followed? Did you just feed it the whole return?

Kind of. I first of all did the entire return with it. So we went step by step and yes I fed the forms one at a time. So I filled in 1040 as best I could. Then just asked it what to do next at each step. It helps I've done it before so most of the steps it returned were ones I've done before. However, it did mention several things that I had not heard of, and also some new taxes that I had to file due to some exceptional events last year. So all in all, a solid use case. This year I have an accountant, but it saved my butt this last year, and I will absolutely run through my accountants decisions with it. It has an encyclopedic knowledge and an immense capability to understand without getting tired.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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I was making a long edit in a crappy wiki UI and my browser froze. It would have taken a long time to redo, hours. I didn't want to take the chance of force closing and losing everything. I used claude code to extract my text out of the browser internals and filesystem objects.

How do you use Claude Code to access your browser memory?

Guessing it gave JS to drop into console.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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post #101

> Their luck changed for the better when they found an old mnemonic seed phrase written in an old college notebook TBF the real breakthrough was finding this, though no doubt they couldn't have recovered without Claude

I bet the majority of people reading this really think Claude cracked the encryption.

i bet the majority of people reading this will reach the 1st line of the 2nd paragarph, and not think that claude cracked the encryption

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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And next to this article are two article recommendations:

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...>

Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...>

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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By my estimation (guess) you won't actually need to spend that much because the models are already getting a point where they don't need to get a whole lot better to be extremely helpful across many domains. And it looks like those very helpful capabilities will continue to transfer to smaller models as well, as architectures and training regimes continue to refine. I can fairly easily imagine a world where the only…

All we need is something like Qwen3-coder-next but at Kimi K2.6 ability so it runs on laptop workstation hardware and we are set...soon?

I am eagerly awaiting being able to run a strong local model. I'd hand Apple $5k right now for a Claude in a box. I know the cost might not be there now, just saying that is around my ideal price point.

$10k might even be worth it - but i'm assuming that the more expensive it is the beefier it is too, which also means more electricity.. and i already run ~6 computers/servers in my house. If a power surge happens i'm going to go live in the woods lol.

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