This Bitcoiner Claims Claude AI Helped Recover 5 BTC Dormant Since 2015, Reopening Lost-Supply Question (opens in new tab)

A Bitcoin wallet that had not moved in more than 11 years sent out roughly 5 BTC worth about $400,000 yesterday (Wednesday), after its pseudonymous owner uploaded the contents of an old college computer into Anthropic's Claude and let the AI sift through more than a gigabyte of files. The address 14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6 distributed the coins across five transactions on May 13, according to public blockchain records.The recovery, posted on X by an account called Cprkrn, drew more th...