Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

比特币交易者在 Claude 的帮助下找回钱包

A Bitcoin holder who changed their wallet password while ‘stoned’ and then forgot it was finally able to recover their wallet with the help of Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they’d been trying to recover their wallet for more than 11 years. Still, they didn’t give up because that wallet contained 5 BTC; this may not sound much, but it has a value of almost $400,000.

一位比特币持有者在“嗨了”（处于醉酒或吸食大麻状态）时修改了钱包密码，随后便将其遗忘。最终，在人工智能 Claude 的帮助下，他成功找回了自己的钱包。据 X 用户 cprkrn 称，他尝试恢复该钱包已经超过 11 年了。尽管如此，他从未放弃，因为钱包里存有 5 枚比特币；这听起来可能不多，但其价值已接近 40 万美元。

After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort. The bot uncovered an old backup wallet file that it successfully decrypted, while also uncovering a bug in the password configuration that was preventing recovery up to that point.

几周前，该用户找到了一串助记词，发现它竟然就是自己当年的旧密码。在孤注一掷的情况下，他将大学时期的所有电脑文件一股脑儿地丢给了 Claude。AI 发现了一个旧的钱包备份文件并成功将其解密，同时还发现了一个导致此前恢复失败的密码配置错误。

Cryptocurrency wallets during their early years were completely different beasts. Mnemonic seed phrases back then generated the HD key tree, but wallets often mixed them with non-HD and imported keys. Those cannot be recovered by the seed phrase and are stored in a wallet file that requires a password. This is what happened to cprkrn — they changed the password to the wallet file that contained some specific keys while they were stoned and then completely forgot what password they used. This meant that the Bitcoins tied to those keys were completely inaccessible, and they’ve been trying to find their way back in since then.

早期的加密货币钱包与现在完全不同。当时的助记词虽然可以生成分层确定性（HD）密钥树，但钱包往往会将它们与非 HD 密钥及导入的密钥混合在一起。这些密钥无法通过助记词恢复，而是存储在需要密码的钱包文件中。cprkrn 正是遇到了这种情况——他在“嗨了”的状态下修改了包含特定密钥的钱包文件密码，随后彻底忘记了密码。这意味着与这些密钥绑定的比特币完全无法访问，从那时起，他便一直在寻找找回它们的方法。

It seems that the user already had some candidate passwords and multiple wallets stored on their PC. They’d been trying to brute-force their way into the locked file with btcrecover, an open-source Bitcoin wallet recovery tool, but to no success. Their luck changed for the better when they found an old mnemonic seed phrase written in an old college notebook. The HD addresses recovered by the seed phrase matched those of a specific file on their computer, confirming that it was the wallet that held the 5 BTC, but it remained encrypted.

看来该用户电脑里已经存有一些候选密码和多个钱包文件。他曾尝试使用开源比特币钱包恢复工具 btcrecover 对锁定文件进行暴力破解，但均未成功。直到他在一本旧大学笔记本上发现了一串助记词，转机才出现。通过助记词恢复出的 HD 地址与他电脑中某个特定文件的地址相匹配，证实了这就是存有 5 枚比特币的钱包，但它依然处于加密状态。

Out of frustration, cprkrn then dumped their whole college computer into Claude. This was when the AI discovered an older backup file of the wallet from December 2019 hidden in cprkrn’s data. Claude also discovered an issue where the shared key and passwords that btcrecover was trying weren’t combined properly. With the bug ironed out and an older wallet predating the password change, Claude successfully ran btcrecover and was able to decrypt the private keys, allowing cprkrn to transfer the five “lost” BTC to their current wallet.

出于沮丧，cprkrn 将他大学时期的整个电脑数据都丢给了 Claude。就在这时，AI 在他的数据中发现了一个隐藏的、来自 2019 年 12 月的旧钱包备份文件。Claude 还发现了一个问题：btcrecover 在尝试组合共享密钥和密码时出现了错误。在修复了该 Bug 并利用密码修改前的旧钱包文件后，Claude 成功运行了 btcrecover 并解密了私钥，使 cprkrn 得以将那 5 枚“丢失”的比特币转移到他当前的钱包中。

This is a happy ending for one user who forgot their wallet password, giving them a massive windfall because of Bitcoin’s massive increase in value during the past few years. And while Anthropic’s Claude did not magically guess the right set of characters to unlock the file that held the private keys, it fixed one critical issue that cprkrn missed out on, allowing him to finally regain his crypto.

对于这位忘记钱包密码的用户来说，这是一个圆满的结局。得益于比特币过去几年价值的暴涨，他获得了一笔巨额横财。虽然 Anthropic 的 Claude 并没有通过“魔法”猜出解锁私钥文件的正确字符，但它修复了 cprkrn 忽略的一个关键问题，从而让他最终找回了自己的加密资产。