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AI & Enterprise
Anthropic\'s Claude helps user recover 5 bitcoin from 11-year locked wallet
A user on X who goes by cprkrn said they recovered 5 bitcoin from a wallet that had been locked for more than 11 years after uploading old files from a college-era computer to Anthropic\'s AI model Claude. They said Claude identified an encrypted wallet file and helped guide decryption using the open-source tool btcrecover. The post drew rapid market and industry reactions. The recovered bitcoin are worth about $400,000 at current prices.
Crypto
Arbitrum, Optimism, Base rebut Vitalik criticism of Layer 2 scaling model
Major Ethereum Layer 2 developers including Optimism, Arbitrum and Base have responded after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin raised doubts about the Layer 2 scaling model, Cointelegraph reported on Tuesday. Buterin said Layer 2 can no longer be key to Ethereum scaling, citing reliance on multisig bridges and security concerns. Developers argued Layer 2 remains important even if the mainnet scales and highlighted throughput and feature upgrades.
Crypto
Coinbase\'s Base App shifts to trading focus, scales back social features
Coinbase-led Ethereum layer-2 network Base will overhaul its Base App into a trading-first structure and scale back social functions. Base and Base App head Jesse Pollak said on X that the app is being refocused. Pollak said user feedback over recent months showed many felt the app was too social and too similar to web2, and it did not sufficiently reflect the range of high-quality assets users wanted.