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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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To be fair regarding taxes it should be that you get all exemptions by default and the other side telling/justifying you why you don't qualify, instead of you not getting the things you should because you're not sure how to interpret the law or don't know this or that rule exists. Taxes shouldn't be that difficult, and the US version of it seems to be behind even the one I have here in europe (where my taxes are done…

i saw a meme once like: IRS> Pay your taxes! me> ok how much? IRS> idk you have to figure it out me> ...ok IRS> if you get it wrong you goto jail

I remember a different ending

me> so you don’t know how much I owe?

IRS> no, we do…

me> ...ok

IRS> if you get it wrong you goto jail

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.

> …recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago

I had to laugh: the most Bitcoin story ever.

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…

[sci-fi “AGI” scenario] What if those with elite model access philosophize in a way us mere mortals can’t understand, so the elites have to prechew the ideas for us to bring them to our level, and they control the narrative? In reality now, curious about social implications generally. Does this go beyond problem solving? Maybe the intelligence per token you get via your free library card/membership is insufficient to…

That isn't really philosophy, but rather doom and gloom theories. Control the narrative on what exactly, how I write a bootstrap script for my servers? Or what type of flower is in this photo. Not everything is politics luckily.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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> So now I joke that even if I have a claude max plan, I've still come out ahead financially. This is no joke; for better or worse, I see a day when I'm paying a lot more for this and it will be a bargain.

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…

In my anecdotal experience there is a huge gap between GPT-5-mini which hallucinates relentlessly and Claude Opus or the latest GPTs which are fairly reliable. I'm hoping that gap can be closed with improved approaches for small models and that good reliability is achievable for LLMs without requiring absolutely mammoth computing resources.

For what it's worth, I also used GPT-5.2 (via duck.ai) this year for questions about taxes and it was helpful — which makes sense because there's an abundance of material about taxes out there to be synthesized, so a text predictor trained in that domain should do well.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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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.

Yup. I was really close to buying $1000 (at $1) worth of BTC ages ago. I don't dwell because the stress of managing that through time would have eaten me away lol. With that said, i do regret not at least mining/etc. Back then i could have mined in many ways, and getting into it as a hobby probably would have meant holding larger amounts of BTC in the long run.

I remember thinking about buying $100 (at $10). And then realizing I didn't actually know how to do it and didn't feel like looking it up or going through whatever steps to do that kind of transaction online, or worrying about getting scammed....

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.

If he was stoned, he would have probably spent his three bitcoins on pizza anyway. The first pizza anybody bought that way cost 10,000 bitcoin, over $billion.

>over $billion.

BTCUSD has been over 100k, but is not currently.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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“ Out of frustration, cprkrn then dumped their whole college computer into Claude. This was when the AI discovered an older backup file of the wallet from December 2019 hidden in cprkrn's data.”

… this dweeb had a file containing their seed in their backup, claude just searched through the files

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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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…

I would do the same but my issue is that the models are changing so fast, so I don't want to be left out of the next model cuz it only runs on an even newer GPU or something like that.

But maybe my limited understanding is thinking of this wrong.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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> bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

> After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort. The bot uncovered an old backup wallet file that it successfully decrypted, while also uncovering a bug in the password configuration that was preventing recovery up to that point.

So it switched from brute-force searching passwords against a file, to brute-force searching files against a password?

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