A Bitcoin holder known on X as @cprkrn recovered approximately 5 BTC — worth between $400,000 and $500,000 at current prices — on May 13, 2026, after more than eleven years locked out of a wallet, crediting Anthropic's Claude AI with solving a technical problem that had defeated every conventional recovery method he had tried

This Man Was Locked Out Of His Bitcoin Wallet For 11 Years — Claude AI Got Him Back In