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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 hypercube33 »

wolttam wrote: post #58
binkHN wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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?

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by glitchc »

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.

The wallet is akin to a lockbox holding your keys to the house. Breaking into the lockbox and changing it's lock does not affect the keys kept inside.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by speff »

0123456789ABCDE wrote: post #63
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a friend that just picked up a new consulting job resurrecting an ancient Windows desktop application. No source control, no tests. And it's spread out over a dozen different folders with names like "_old", "_new" and "dates". Claude's doing a tremendous job in getting him to grips with what is actually happening in the application, what's relevant, what's not, what's different. I think it's literally saving h…

if your friend has access to the binary and can pull it out to different box, they might get a lot out of a ghidra mcp -> https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP

I'm not well versed at reverse engineering binaries or interpreting C/assembly so ghidra MCP has been an absolute gamechanger for helping me write tools. Once my project is complete, I plan to learn how to do the analysis myself manually and have cc guide me along the way.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by wolttam »

hypercube33 wrote: post #81
wolttam wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by internet101010 »

VadimPR wrote: post #50

Claude is also surprisingly good at analyzing system issues on a Linux system and solving them!

Yeah Claude is really, really good there. You tell it the distro and the problem and it will solve it. Saved me a lot of pain when it came to swapping out an encrypted boot drive and was good about emphasizing the order of operations required for what I would consider a higher risk/complexity situation.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by baq »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #7
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…

I have a friend that just picked up a new consulting job resurrecting an ancient Windows desktop application. No source control, no tests. And it's spread out over a dozen different folders with names like "_old", "_new" and "dates". Claude's doing a tremendous job in getting him to grips with what is actually happening in the application, what's relevant, what's not, what's different. I think it's literally saving h…

no such thing as closed source software anymore, just fully open and not quite fully open nowadays.
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