Re:Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD
by morpheuskafka on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:30AM
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They still have two important moats: (1) expensive hardware tools (even stuff like SATA write blockers are kind of expensive for what they are), spare hard drive collections to swap failed PCBs, etc and (2) the "nobody got fired for hiring us" edge similar to how everyone calls in Crowdstrike/Mandiant after an incident. If a suit-level manager finds out customer data was lost, they are going to want to call in an expert so they can immediately tell the customer they did, not have the same internal team try to figure it out.
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Re:Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD
by kotaKat on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:59AM
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As an aside to #1: The cool thing is in modern times the hardware tools have come down stupidly cheap in price. Even SD card recovery is (vaguely) in the right skilled hands in a pseudo-professional home lab these days.
https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-flash-spider-board-adapte...