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@odudex is doing some great work on Kern, gave it a run through on this video. A great DIY project already and great showcase of ESP32-P4 youtu.be/_ilQHtGJY5A (running on @Elecrow1 10.1 crowpanel, it's huge and looks amazing)

@odudex Which mkdocs extension?

Krux documentation has suffered a supply chain attack through a mkdocs extension. Be aware we would never ask something like a login! AFAIK these login popup was the only change, I'm investigating further.

@glgrau @Keycard_ @SeedSigner Probably in the next release ;)

@YTCryptoGuide @Keycard_ @SeedSigner would love to see your integration of @keycard_ in shieldsigner!

Had a look at the @Keycard_ Shell. Great option to split hardware in such a way as to remove vendor trust. (Works great with DIY flashed Javacard) youtu.be/5NPP4c0D2FM Core functionally of my @SeedSigner fork (Shieldsigner) but available to normal folk as a retail offering :)

Kern dynamic UI taking shape. And it's getting unique and beautiful under the hood too.

@odudex @Elecrow1 10.1 :)

@YTCryptoGuide @Elecrow1

How about tablet-like signers? @YTCryptoGuide pushed Kern support for a family of devices ranging from 7" to 10.1" (for ~$50 to $70). Kern now supports @Elecrow1 ESP32P4-based devices. Look for Crow Panel Advanced if you'd like to join Kern development for big screens.

@IamWelma @cprkrn The search space is a uniform distribution for large seed based recoveries and this would also break determinism and the ability to run the tool offline in a distributed way for password recoveries. (So isn't really appropriate or applicable to this domain)

#advanced-fibonacci-search-strategy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/welliv/btcreco… @cprkrn @YTCryptoGuide

@cprkrn @IamWelma Just adding some skills to BTCRecover to cover installation and usage, to prompt users to go offline and also not hide the tip addresses that actually support the project. You lucked out and didn't lose everything to malware. Running it online is very risky and AI even moreso.

@YTCryptoGuide @IamWelma Sorry what do you mean? Fwiw I used it on my main laptop in Claude’s actual UI successfully no issues. Seems worth it even if worse op sec for users who wouldn’t otherwise follow through if that makes sense

Just shipped btcrecover-skill — an open-source AI agent skill built on top of @YTCryptoGuide btcrecover tool. It turns the powerful but technical recovery engine into a simple, safe, natural-language experience for anyone. Repo: github.com/welliv/btcreco… Inspired by @cprkrn

@IamWelma @cprkrn Basically for anything over $1000 there needs to be a hard stop or completely different workflow unless it's for wallets that allow a wallet extract to be used.

@YTCryptoGuide @cprkrn Fair point. Tier 2: wallet, keys and seed stay fully local. Only plain-text reasoning goes to cloud. But you’re right, the machine stays online, so real risks remain (malware, etc.) For anything serious we recommend Tier 1 (fully offline). I’ll make this clearer in the docs.

@IamWelma @cprkrn Your tier 2 is extremely high risk, you are allowing BTCRecover to run on a system with an active internet connection...

@YTCryptoGuide @cprkrn Thanks, I appreciate you adding the official SKILL.md. Mine is a fuller agent-native layer built on top. Would you try it out when you have a moment? github.com/welliv/btcreco…

@IamWelma @cprkrn I tested the one in my repo and it works fine with qwen3.5-9b so can be used securely fully offline too. Will have a video covering it next week.

@TraderJHAY @uchecrypt @etchuking Just be sure that you take your system fully offline to run the actual recovery, then move the funds to a new wallet before going back online. (The installation of BTCRecover and playing around with a test wallet can happen online)

@YTCryptoGuide @uchecrypt @etchuking Finally, solution in sight. Thanks man.

I tried to recover my seedphrase with CLAUDE and a recovery tool and it worked! If you have misplaced some words in your seedphrase, this video will guide you on how to do it. Thanks to @YTCryptoGuide

@TraderJHAY @uchecrypt @etchuking Yea it's trivial then, just follow my video on descrambling a seed with BTCRecover and you are good to go.

@YTCryptoGuide @uchecrypt @etchuking It's 12 words

@TraderJHAY @uchecrypt @etchuking If you have just shifted the position but kept the order then it's a trivial recovery regardless of length

@uchecrypt @etchuking @YTCryptoGuide The seed phrase was rearranged for security reasons and I can't remember which one comes first, will this solve it?

@uchecrypt I added some skill.md files to the repo this week github.com/3rdIteration/b… It can help walk you through the process. Supports both split process where it creates templates for what to run on your offline system and fully offline via local LLM. (Qwen 3.5 9b works)

@Jeremybtc The bug in BTCRecover was for decrypting and dumping the private key from the file, not for matching the password, which worked perfectly fine.

A guy spent 11 years trying to crack his own Bitcoin wallet password. He tried 7 TRILLION combinations. Claude solved it by finding a file he forgot he had. > Around 2014 he bought Bitcoin at $250 per coin while in college. > Worried about security, he changed his wallet password while intoxicated to: lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:) > He forgot it. The Bitcoin sat locked while the price went from $250 to over $80,000. > For years he tried to crack it. He spent $250 on professional recovery services. He ran btcrecover on his CPU for 34 BILLION attempts. Nothing. > He rented an RTX 4090 GPU on Vast ai for $15 and ran Hashcat at 148 MILLION attempts per second. 3.4 TRILLION more passwords. Brute force, pattern, gap phase. Still nothing. > The total attempts crossed 7 TRILLION combinations across years of trying. > Then he tried something different. He uploaded the entire contents of his old college hard drive into Claude. > Claude found a wallet backup file from December 2019 that he had completely forgotten existed. > It also caught a bug in btcrecover. The tool had been concatenating the password incorrectly the entire time. > Bitcoin private keys never change. Only the encryption around them does. The 2019 backup used an older password he still had written down in a college notebook. > Claude ran the correct decryption, verified the addresses and swept the wallet. > 5 Bitcoin. $398,000. Unlocked. > His post ended with: "NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU @AnthropicAI" The wallet was never unbreakable. The information needed to open it had been sitting on the same hard drive for 11 years. No human was ever going to find it. Claude did in one session.

@TFTC21 @cprkrn Shout out to @YTCryptoGuide for the FOSS tool that helped @claudeai to recover the lost #Bitcoin

@IamWelma It should also check for an internet connection with a basic ping or nslookup and basically refuse to run if it detects one

@IamWelma It should also explicitly tell the user which tools made the recovery possible and how to support them, rather than just hiding that detail

This is a really good example of the damage that Claude will do to open source. Basically everyone gets thanked and publicized *except* for the FOSS tools that Claude used to do the actual work. (Which are all then abstracted away from the user)