A Man Who Forgot the Password He Changed While High on Drugs and Couldn’t Recover $400,000 Worth of Bitcoin Regains It After 11 Years Thanks to AI

A man regained access to a Bitcoin wallet he had been locked out of for 11 years after forgetting a password he changed while high.

He used Anthropic’s Claude to analyze his files, identify an older wallet file, and recover the key needed to unlock the wallet.

The recovered Bitcoin is worth roughly $400,000.

The case highlights how AI tools can help with rare digital recovery problems, especially when valuable crypto is at stake.