Today, X user @cprkrn posted:
Unfortunate choice of words for the first post. While he meant he decrypted the mnemonic file (with which he then recovered the wallet), the otherwise happy news were interpreted by some portals as "Bitcoin has been Cracked!!!111!!!"...
I made my part and clarified the issue on at least one argentinian financing X account (https://x.com/LisandroIaffar/status/2054672800569323606).
Anyways, brace yourselves for another wave of FUD...
What the AI actually did was test a mnemonic password he already had against thousands of files on his old computer. However, the headline just fueled the FUD in the minds of the ignorant.
Exactly!
Just to be clear with the phrasing, what he did was to test an old password on encrypted mnemonic files. The AI found the old encrypted file (the one before he made the password change). He actually should have deleted said old file, so he was saved by the same messiness that got him in this trouble from the start :P
Here comes a loyal member of a AI company marketing team.
You really think an AI chat just actually cracked a wallet? Cracking a password is possible, but not a Bitcoin wallet.
And that's exactly what happened and what didn't happen, respectively.
Who knows, this guy can just be fucking with us. A long con for notoriety. But I'll take the cheaper sats.
Honestly a part of me hopes this indeed causes FUD for this same reason😅
Wow, the comments seem to show a lot of ignorance about what actually happened.
Sad thing is that most of the public of such posts is people already "acquainted" with bitcoin. What's left for the nocoiners?...
On the other hand, the OP couldn't have chosen a worse wording...
his tweets were honestly kinda hard to understand... even using the word "pneumonic" instead of "mnemonic"
LOL yes I laughed at that. Checks out with the guy's personality. Won't be surprised if he loses the wallet back again in the same way :P
Bullshit.
This is no bullshit. Did you read everything?
https://twiiit.com/MatheyBTC/status/2054835201801327009
https://twiiit.com/cprkrn/status/2054586810475364536
Tweet wording: he had an encrypted mnemonic backup and used Claude to decrypt the file locally. Standard AES, not any BIP39 weakness.
The real story here isn't the AI-it's that someone kept enough documentation to make recovery possible at all. Most wallet loss isn't a technology failure, it's a record-keeping failure that happened years earlier. Claude just helped connect the dots that were still there. The lesson is probably: what would a future version of you need to find this?