New AI and hardware may crack the code on lost crypto

Robert Rhodin, CEO of KeychainX, argues in a guest post that AI models and faster hardware are significantly improving crypto recovery services. He cites research estimating that about six million of Bitcoin's 21 million total supply is missing, and another report showing 29 percent of Bitcoin has not moved in five years. He describes PASS-GPT, an AI model based on OpenAI's GPT-2, as having 20% more password-guessing capacity than its counterparts. The post also says side-channel attacks on hardware wallets such as Trezor and Keepkey cannot currently be prevented without extra security, and notes that legitimate recovery services never request upfront fees.