Claude Just Cracked 11 Years of Lost Bitcoin

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. Anthropic's Claude helped a Bitcoin holder recover a wallet that had been locked for eleven years, and the internet promptly decided AI had "cracked Bitcoin." Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop walk through what actually happened: the man fed Claude his old college notebook and computer files, and the model narrowed an effectively infinite seed-phrase search down to a brute-force range small enough to win. No protocol was broken. Does it matter that Claude did not break Bitcoin if the wallet opened anyway? Hunter has his own version of the nightmare, the roughly eight Bitcoin he mined at $12 a coin and stranded on an old SATA drive, gone. From there the bigger question: how much of your life do you hand an AI? OpenAI is now wiring ChatGPT into Plaid, the same pipe that connects Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, and 12,000 other institutions, so the model can read your bank account and flag your dead subscriptions. Daniel's working definition of AGI is the day it can file your taxes start to finish. Then the money story: Sam Altman is offering Y Combinator startups $2 million in OpenAI credits in exchange for equity, and we argue over whether that is ordinary venture capital or OpenAI buying a look at how the next wave of startups actually builds with AI. Plus Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model the benchmarks loved and reviewers did not, and the benchmaxing accusation trailing it; Google's new Spark assistant; and Daniel's case that the future is local AI running on hardware in your house, if you can still afford a graphics card. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 1:21 Opening Banter 2:26 Hunter's Lost Bitcoin 5:38 Claude Bitcoin Recovery 9:24 Teacher Email Hack 11:59 AI Bank Access 17:16 OpenAI's $2M Startup Deal 25:15 Gemini 3.5 Flash 29:27 Local AI Future REFERENCED THIS EPISODE The Claude Bitcoin wallet recovery story (crypto.news): https://crypto.news/claude-helps-man-recover-5-bitcoin-after-old-wallet-search/ LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT Hunter would let an AI read his bank account but never touch his crypto wallet. Where exactly is your line, and what is on the wrong side of it? You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #Claude #Bitcoin #LostBitcoin #AI #TMBSA