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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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Post by WanderPanda »

wolttam wrote: post #85
hypercube33 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It highly depends on the task. For math and coding, sure. But for knowledge tasks GPT-4 is wayy better than even SOTA ~100B models. For my knowledge test cases the lines get blurry at >400B

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by afzalive »

nso wrote: post #115
giancarlostoro wrote: post #10

> 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.

Someone gifted me 87 bitcoins back when they were worth ~0. They are still in some wallet somewhere I guess, and I saved the password on a harddrive I threw out around the same time

For 9.7 million, I would spend a considerable amount of time trying to recover that.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by paulpauper »

leros wrote: post #116
giancarlostoro wrote: post #10

> 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.

have you tried to get the city to excavate it ? lol

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by templar_snow »

unshavedyak wrote: post #110
hypercube33 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Uh... get a UPS?

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by fortran77 »

atonse wrote: post #14

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…

I use AI to help me do my accounting (how to categorize and account for things). It pays for itself because I need to spend money for far fewer hours from an accounting firm each month to make sure that captialized expenses, depreciation, tax credits (we have Historical Tax Credits from restoring an 1880s building) etc, is put in the books properly. The AI gets it right a high enough percentage of the time that I only the to have a real accountant look at things once a quarter to make sure it's all OK. I used to have a dozen questions every month.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by JamesLeonis »

atonse wrote: post #129
unshavedyak wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wouldn't worry about hardware.

I've run the latest local models over the last year, including the recent Qwen 3.6 30B A3B, on a 9yo GTX 1080 and 32G RAM I have lying around[0]. If I can do that I don't think hardware will be a problem for you in the near term. The only updates I've needed were to Llama.cpp when a new class of model was released.

[0]: In my case, I want to see how local models perform on limited hardware, sacrificing context size and intelligence compared to SOTA models, so I have to really limit my expectations.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by anon291 »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #134
anon291 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

People's tax returns are essentially public (yes I know they're not allowed to disclose them). Didn't send the forms in with social security numbers.

This absurd concern for privacy is silly in my opinion. The moment something is submitted to the government it ought to be considered public. Even your social security number is essentially public for anyone who cares to find it.

I would not submit my bank account information to these services, or my passwords, obviously.

Honestly, tax returns should be public again. Would make everyone better behaved IMO. It was this way for most of American income tax history believe it or not.

To be clear, my information has already been part of several breaches anyway. What protects you ultimately is the law not information security. Of course this point is often lost on engineering / computer scientist types who don't understand how law works.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by kristjansson »

One can't help but observe the contrast between counterparty behavior here vs. the crypto boom. A counterparty service had a secret worth 400K in-hand and just passed it back to the user. Meanwhile crypto worries about MEV, the Dark Forest, etc.

This cycle is hostile in lots of ways, but the trustworthiness and absence of hostility in this dimension is quite nice.

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