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Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by brunoborges »

notRobot wrote: post #2

Claude Code is really good at stuff like this. The other day I tried to recover some images from an SD card that had gone bad. I used GetDataBack to recover files, but they appeared to be malformed and didn't open in image viewers. I tasked Claude to analyze the files and figure out what's going on, and eventually we figured out that each file had a custom metadata header + thumbnail + actual image concatenated. I ha…

> Claude Code is really good at stuff like this.

A lot of "Claude Code is best at X" claims are probably user-selection bias.

The people saying it are often exclusively Claude Code users, not people who are actively benchmarking Claude Code against Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other agent harnesses on the same tasks.

The claim may still be true for certain scenarios, but the evidence is usually anecdotal, not comparative.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#53

Post by atonse »

nolok wrote: post #36
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…

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 would agree with you on most situations (like 1040 personal income taxes especially).

But in this particular tax credit, there's no way for the gov to know automatically what percentage of payroll was spent in qualified R&D expenses, since it's day to day business operations. Which is why we are _forced_ to hire an outside firm and pay them thousands of dollars (when Claude did an even better job), just to analyze how much of our time qualified as R&D expenses.

The problem I have is that I am forced to have to find a firm to do this, and most firms won't even work with companies as small as ours. So then we're stuck and losing out on years of R&D tax credits at the moment, when I really don't need them anymore, to be honest.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#54

Post by jmuguy »

My_Name wrote: post #21

I spent a couple of days mining many years ago and got 2 bitcoins. At the time, they weren't worth the electricity they cost to mine and over time I lost the wallet and all information related to it. I'd love to mine a bitcoin a day on my PC now...

My wife doesn't like it when I tell the story of the hard drive I threw away with a wallet with 2 dozen BTC on it.

But lets be honest - when BTC hit 100 bucks, we would have cashed it out thinking we were geniuses.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#55

Post by throwaway041207 »

brunoborges wrote: post #51
notRobot wrote: post #2

Claude Code is really good at stuff like this. The other day I tried to recover some images from an SD card that had gone bad. I used GetDataBack to recover files, but they appeared to be malformed and didn't open in image viewers. I tasked Claude to analyze the files and figure out what's going on, and eventually we figured out that each file had a custom metadata header + thumbnail + actual image concatenated. I ha…

> Claude Code is really good at stuff like this. A lot of "Claude Code is best at X" claims are probably user-selection bias. The people saying it are often exclusively Claude Code users, not people who are actively benchmarking Claude Code against Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other agent harnesses on the same tasks. The claim may still be true for certain scenarios, but the evidence is usually anecd…

Parent didn't say Claude Code is best at anything?

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#57

Post by gobdovan »

nolok wrote: post #36
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…

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…

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Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#58

Post by wolttam »

binkHN wrote: post #48
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…

> 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 people needing to spend a lot of money on models are those that are using them to solve truly novel problems. The rest of us will get plenty of use at reasonable costs for the typical day-to-day helpful stuff.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#59

Post by throwaway041207 »

jmuguy wrote: post #54
My_Name wrote: post #21

I spent a couple of days mining many years ago and got 2 bitcoins. At the time, they weren't worth the electricity they cost to mine and over time I lost the wallet and all information related to it. I'd love to mine a bitcoin a day on my PC now...

My wife doesn't like it when I tell the story of the hard drive I threw away with a wallet with 2 dozen BTC on it. But lets be honest - when BTC hit 100 bucks, we would have cashed it out thinking we were geniuses.

Yep, I timed the top of the market perfectly and cashed out 5 BTC at ~$80/BTC.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

#60

Post by bornfreddy »

tiffanyh wrote: post #49

I'm no expert but using an old wallet with a changed password, and it working, seems like a major security design flaw. In the physical world, I can't imagine too many people being happy that old keys to your house still work even after you've changed the locks. Can someone more informed, help me understand how this worked and why it's ok. I'm genuinely wanting to become more informed & better understand.

They didn't lose the key, they just didn't know which one is the correct one, where the lock is, and how the unlocking is done.
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