So this guy has been locked out of his Bitcoin wallet for more than a decade… which normally just means, “welp, that money’s gone forever.”
Turns out, the problem started in college… when he changed the password while high. Which, honestly, feels like exactly when you shouldn’t be making long-term financial decisions.
He says he spent years trying “like 7 trillion passwords,” which is both an exaggeration and also somehow believable.
Finally, he decides to let AI take a crack at it. Uploads some old files from his college computer into Claude… and boom — it finds an older wallet file from before the questionable life choices.
Uses that, gets back in… and suddenly his 5 Bitcoin are worth about 400 grand.
And yes, the password was apparently something that started with “LOL 420” and ended with an N.W.A. lyric… so really, this was never going to be solved by sober logic.
He’s so grateful, he says he might name his future kid after the CEO of the AI company… which feels like a bold way to explain that story at parent-teacher conferences someday.