According to the post, uploaded legacy computer files helped Anthropic’s Claude AI identify a bug in btcrecover, leading to the extraction of the wallet’s private keys.
A Bitcoin holder recovered 5 Bitcoin, valued in the post at about $500,000, from a wallet that had been locked since 2015. The post says the recovery was achieved this week by using Claude, an artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, to analyze old computer files. According to the claim, the process identified a bug in btcrecover, a wallet recovery tool used to reconstruct access credentials, and enabled the successful extraction of the private keys (secret codes controlling wallet access). The episode highlights how wallet recovery can depend on preserving legacy data and how AI tools may assist with technical troubleshooting, although the post provides no additional technical documentation beyond the claim itself.