Claude helps man recover $400,000 in BTC 11 years after he got high and forgot password
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Glad AI helped someone.
So sad seeing this downvoted. Why the fuck is r/technology so anti tech?
r/technology hasn't been about technology for a very long time. It's just another disguised political subreddit. I really doubt majority of today's users even like technology.
Chinese bots intended to encourage fear and doubt of new tech, especially AI in the US
To be honest the guys lucky he got high because he probably would have sold it when I hit $1,000 a coin or something or $5,000 or 10,000.
I feel attacked.
Theres a buddy of mine who uses a crypto app that shows what their coins would be worth if they never sold.
His bit coin holding would be in the hundreds of millions. Idk why he still uses the app.
That's one reason why I don't have FOMO over bitcoin. If I had bought in at 50 cents or 10 dollars or whatever, there is NO WAY I wouldn't have sold everything as soon as it hit $100. If I bought in at $100 there is NO WAY I wouldn't have sold everything at $1000... And I've never really been in a meaningful position to spend $1000 on Bitcoin.
So, it didn't actually do anything to Bitcoin. He had the answer the entire time on his machine, it's just that Claude helped him search through his files.
Guy was literally too lazy to look for 400k.
The whole "got high and forgot his password" makes more sense.
Probably for the best that it stayed on the shelf for so long so it increased in value. I could well imagine him blowing it on a pizza or something years ago.
It sounds like he'd actually spent a fair bit of effort in trying to brute-force it, but had overlooked the more obvious solution:
There was this weird moment here on Reddit at the beginning of crypto-currency where it was much, much, much more freely given out. BTC tips, and hell - doge coin was literally a subreddit to learn how cryptocurrency works, with a then-fake coin. I probably had a handful of BTC and DEFINITELY had some Dogecoin, but I did not take it seriously enough to actually link a wallet, and had to burn that account for reasons. But all those other redditors? At least one of them was high as balls, I can tell you that.
I have to say in an enterprise environment full of unstructured data, emails, teams messages, etc. LLMs are particularly useful as a search tool.
Yeah, my work rolled out Premium CoPilot, and while I try to avoid using it unnecessarily it has definitely made searching through thousands of outlook emails much easier. I describe a conversation I think I had a year ago and it shows me the original thread.
What were you expecting, Claude to randomly guess the seed?
Dude really pulled the "we tried nothing and are all out of ideas"
Why doesn’t the guy who threw his hard drive with bitcon into the dumpster just ask Claude to find it? Is he stupid?
If he got one of those humanoid robots and gave Galude autonomy maybe we could have modern day Wall-E digging through heaps of garbage for a lost hard drive.
sooo, it did a ctrl + F?
Yeah, and it's actually like a pretty good representation of how generative machine learning / LLMs actually are useful and not "this is changing the entire world" useful.
To some folks not searching for an old wallet file with a key phrase in it is a moronic move, but breakdown the pieces of information you have to have to know to do that:
You have to know that wallets store that info.
You have to know that it's readable by some utility.
You have to know that old wallets aren't just deleted with a new one or whatever, they're .bak'd or what have you.
(Generalizing here since I myself don't know these things, just what I've gleemed from reading the article). And yeah, there are a ton of people that have those pieces of information in their head at all time and think it's moronic not to. But, if you happen to have missed one of those pieces of information or haven't connected it in your head to being relevant you might just skip over it. LLMs are pretty good at showing you angles you might not have considered to problems. It shouldn't be used to outright solve issues, but it can give you different perspectives based on the collective knowledge it has.
Now whether that knowledge was gained ethically, whether the usage of power to use it is reasonable, whether increasing the portfolios of the insanely wealthy is a good idea... Those questions have very, very different answers. But LLMs and Generative Machine Learning do have their usages.
“ LLMs are pretty good at showing you angles you might not have considered to problems. It shouldn't be used to outright solve issues, but it can give you different perspectives based on the collective knowledge it has.”
We have to use AI at work & this is exactly how I use it. I can’t trust it to not hallucinate for most of my work.
From my experience Claude will work much harder than that. It'll grep multiple phrases, read files it thinks are related, restore from shadow volumes, use native apis, run data recovery software, whatever it needs if you push it enough.
Pretty much. The dude in question is just a moron.
If he asked the bitcoin sub for advice they would have done the same thing for him. Claude probably just copy/pasted something from there.
Like always, LLMs are just a way to synthesize and concentrate a bunch of forum threads into one thing.
Harold and Kumar find 400k in Bitcoin
I used Claude to try and decrypt an old drive of a deceased family friend. I was thoroughly impressed. We got to the point where we were able to identify the password, but unfortunately, it was encrypted with the use of a TPM in the original hardware.
Another paid PR stunt by the AI guys I'm assuming.
Was it Afroman by chance
Seems like the story is written by claude marketing team
He was high for 11 years?
Claude lets people who were previously too lazy to use Google properly find things anyway. And as a software developer, being pretty good at googling things is like my main marketable skill.