Claude AI Debugs Recovery Tool to Unlock 5 BTC from 2015 Dormant Wallet at $79K BTC

Anthropic's Claude AI enabled a user to recover ~5 BTC ($397K) from an 11-year dormant wallet on May 13, 2026, by fixing a btcrecover bug after scanning 1GB of files and 3.5T prior password attempts, costing just $15 in compute. The viral story, exceeding 1M X views, follows a May 12 whale movement of 500 BTC ($40.6M) from a 13-year-old 2012 address amid BTC at $81.5K and bullish RSI (64.85). It spotlights AI's potential to access 2.3-4M lost BTC while raising data security risks from cloud uploads.