A Bitcoin user recovered nearly $400,000 worth of lost cryptocurrency after using Claude AI from Anthropic to analyze thousands of old files and locate a forgotten digital wallet dating back 11 years.
Details
• The user uploaded old university computer files for Claude AI to analyze.
• The system identified a wallet file created before the password had been changed.
• The AI also helped detect and fix a bug inside the open-source recovery tool btcrecover.
• The recovery depended on data and keys already owned by the user.
• Experts said the process did not involve hacking Bitcoin encryption, but advanced digital file analysis.
What’s next?
The case highlights growing use cases for AI in digital forensics and data recovery, especially as the value of older crypto holdings continues to rise.
