Could lost-key crypto wallets become an AI hardware-hacking benchmark?

johnowhitaker · x · 2026-08-04

The author wonders whether it’s possible to buy a bucket of hardware crypto wallets whose keys have been lost, and suggests it would make a great AI hardware-hacking eval.

The joke is that such devices would be an absurd but realistic testbed: the AI would have to reason about unknown hardware state, lost keys, and whatever recovery paths still exist.

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