A pseudonymous user on X claims he regained access to 5 bitcoin he had lost for more than a decade after forgetting the password—and it was Anthropic’s Claude chatbot that put all the pieces of the puzzle together for him. After feeding the model files from an old college laptop and attempting to guess trillions of passwords with the assistance of a few different tools, Claude delivered the final breakthrough that unlocked the wallet. According to an interview with MTS , the man who posts on X as @cprkrn bought the 5 bitcoin from someone via the now-defunct trading platform LocalBitcoins while sitting in a Starbucks in 2015. Each coin cost about $250 at the time. He stored them in a Blockchain.com wallet and backed up the account with a mnemonic phrase. Soon afterward, while stoned, he changed the password to “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” and promptly forgot it. He remembered two of the three password components but could never locate the third.…