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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 anon291 »

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…

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

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by bink »

jackconsidine wrote: post #16

> Their luck changed for the better when they found an old mnemonic seed phrase written in an old college notebook TBF the real breakthrough was finding this, though no doubt they couldn't have recovered without Claude

The guy also had to plug in an old hard drive for Claude to search. Sounds like he had an idea the wallet was on there to begin with.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by _ache_ »

ndr wrote: post #41
vibe42 wrote: post #9

Many crypto wallets use a key derivation function (KDF) to add an amount of computation (and memory usage) per password tried - to mitigate brute force of weak passwords. The increase in compute (decrease in brute-force cost) combined with price increases in many crypto tokens means brute-forcing old wallets can become worth it years after passwords were forgotten. And of course even smaller, local AI models can now…

how can that possibly work while supporting offline backup & restore?

The compute power needed use to be of the order of 5s per password try. So it effectively mitigate brute force back them, you need a absurd compute power to crack them.

Moore law did its thing, now you can do it with a lot less computer power.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by Barbing »

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…

[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 compete with peers in dating/employment/etc. markets, thus puts you at disadvantage.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by moduspol »

VadimPR wrote: post #50

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

Yesterday I had ChatGPT walk me through fixing my single-node k3s cluster. It required rebuilding the sqlite database (while skipping a few corrupted records), then clearing the containerd cache, and then finally deleting a somehow-corrupted Secret record, and then recreating it.

Without it I would have given up way earlier, but the infinite patience to keep slurping in error messages and continue to troubleshoot really worked out.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by hansmayer »

On a purely technical level - cool. But I still cannot get over the impression that even in this case LLMs show us how they are mainly useful to grifters. I mean, 5 Bitcoins worth 400K USD. Why? What intrinsic value does Bitcoin deliver? It's like trading for monopoly money.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by gonzalohm »

anon291 wrote: post #91
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…

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

Can you explain the steps you followed? Did you just feed it the whole return?
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