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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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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?

In 2023 GPT-4 was allegedly 1.8T parameters. In 2026 we have ~100x smaller models (10-20B) that handily outperform it, and can indeed run on a laptop.

How does "outperform" translate to the propensity of an LLM to hallucinate?

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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I have a similar claude story (much less money though), with the IRS R&D tax credit. The auditing firm initially said we qualify for $0. But then I had claude analyze past R&D reports and our expenses and it found the problem. The auditor had miscategorized our company. So claude drafted an email even pointing to the right Internal Revenue Code (IRS Law), and specify why we fall under a specific category. The auditor…

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

very trustworthy of the system sharing your taxes with a third party

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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post #101

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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

I don't have the data but I don't think most people look past the title.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Still, they didn’t give up because that wallet contained 5 BTC; this may not sound much, but it has a value of almost $400,000. They are really underestimating their audiance here.

They are not though, because this audience is apparently eager to gobble up fake clickbait.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#137
post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2023 GPT-4 was allegedly 1.8T parameters. In 2026 we have ~100x smaller models (10-20B) that handily outperform it, and can indeed run on a laptop.

How does "outperform" translate to the propensity of an LLM to hallucinate?

There seems to be a mass delusion about how capable SOTA models actually are. That's my only explanation for how poorly I find them performing in basic knowledge tasks compared to how others describe their prowess.

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 have a lost wallet with about 300 Bitcoin sitting in a landfill somewhere. I tried out Bitcoin really early on and mined those over a few weeks. But they were worthless back then and I was burning electricity for "nothing" so I stopped. This was before that 10k Bitcoin pizza purchase happened. I have some regrets lol.

Don't worry, we were also giving out millions (or more!) of dogecoin as tips on Reddit. Can't really get hung up on crypto shit.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does "outperform" translate to the propensity of an LLM to hallucinate?

There seems to be a mass delusion about how capable SOTA models actually are. That's my only explanation for how poorly I find them performing in basic knowledge tasks compared to how others describe their prowess.

I understand you to be implying that I shouldn't trust my perception that there's a meaningful difference in how much different models hallucinate. I will take that under advisement, but I am still interested in the answer to my original question.
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