Claude Just Cracked 11 Years of Lost Bitcoin

About this episode

The episode discusses how Claude cracked an 11-year-locked Bitcoin wallet and the implications for financial privacy and AI.

Claude cracked an 11-year-locked Bitcoin wallet by figuring out who its owner used to be. Bitcoin's one rule just got an asterisk. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down how Anthropic's Claude narrowed an impossible seed-phrase search to bring back a wallet locked for eleven years, why that is not the same as breaking Bitcoin, and the eight coins Hunter mined at $12 each and stranded on a dead drive. The story sets up a harder question: how much of your financial life do you hand a model? OpenAI is wiring ChatGPT into Plaid to read your bank account, Sam Altman is trading $2 million in credits for equity in Y Combinator startups, and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash draws benchmaxing accusations while Daniel argues the real future is local AI you run at home.

People in this episode

Hosts: Hunter Powers, Daniel Bishop

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• AI
• financial technology
• cryptocurrency
• local AI
• seed-phrase search

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Claude
• seed-phrase
• cryptocurrency
• AI
• financial privacy
• OpenAI
• ChatGPT
• Gemini 3.5

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Plaid, Y Combinator, Google

Products: ChatGPT, Gemini 3.5 Flash

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