Lost Bitcoin Just Got an AI Lifeline — and a New Privacy Problem (opens in new tab)

A Bitcoin holder's claim to have used Anthropic's Claude to recover roughly 5 BTC — worth around $395,000 at current prices — has set off a fresh debate about the role AI tools could play in cracking open the multi-million-coin overhang of lost Bitcoin. But the recovery, while real, isn't quite the cryptographic breakthrough that went viral on X this week.