NewsNTech
wallet.dat Decompiled: How Claude Unlocked Five Bitcoin After Eleven Years of Hashcat On May 13, an X account under the handle Cprkrn posted a screenshot of a Claude session running shell commands against an old Bitcoin Core dump.
By the end of the transcript Claude had printed, in all caps, the line every long-locked HODLer dreams of: "WE GOT IT!!! THE 5 BTC IS YOURS!" The post cleared millions of views inside a day.
The reflexive read was that an LLM had broken Bitcoin's cryptography. The actual story is more interesting, and a lot more relevant to anyone shipping AI tooling.
The user had bought 5 BTC near $250 a coin back in college, changed the wallet password while impaired, and then spent more than a decade brute-forcing what he thought was the lockout.
Keep reading