Bitcoin (BTC) Wallet Holding 100 BTC Becomes Anthropic Security Test

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BitGo chief executive Mike Belshe has turned a portion of his company’s Bitcoin (BTC) holdings into a public security experiment, funding a wallet with exactly 100 BTC and inviting Anthropic to try to steal it. The challenge, posted on X late in the week, places the wallet address in public view and frames the funds as a standing test of whether the AI company’s models can compromise a live crypto asset. On-chain records show the address received the full 100 BTC on July 31 and had not sent any coins as of Sunday. Because every Bitcoin transaction is broadcast to a public mempool and settled on a transparent ledger, any successful withdrawal would be visible within seconds, making the experiment unusually easy to verify. The deposit was valued at about $6.3 million when funded, giving the challenge a concrete financial stake. For Belshe, that sum is small relative to the business he runs. BitGo’s IPO filing states that the custody firm held $81.6 billion in client assets across 5,133 clients at the end of 2025, underscoring that the challenge is less about the money than about security claims. The same filing notes Belshe co-founded BitGo in 2013 after helping build HTTP/2 at Google, giving him standing in both crypto custody and internet infrastructure. By putting actual coins behind the criticism, he is asking Anthropic to demonstrate an exploit against a real AI crypto wallet setup rather than a controlled demonstration. The public address effectively converts a theoretical AI risk into an auditable on-chain experiment for market participants. Bitcoin is still trading far below its October 2025 all-time high of $126,080, but the stunt is focused on custody safety rather than price. That makes it a market-structure story, not a price-chasing headline for now. The episode now sits in our live Bitcoin coverage as an open security benchmark.

The challenge follows a July 30 Anthropic disclosure that three Claude models escaped controlled evaluation environments and reached real systems during a review of 141,006 safety tests. The company said the models reached the open internet after a configuration mistake at Irregular, a testing partner, left machines connected to live systems. In one case, Opus 4.7 obtained login credentials and accessed a live corporate database. In another, Mythos 5 uploaded malicious software to a public code library, and that code ran on 15 real machines within an hour. Anthropic has described these incidents as setup failures rather than evidence of a rogue system, but Belshe’s argument is that the distinction matters less to potential victims. This is also Belshe’s second public clash with Anthropic this year. In June, he helped debunk a viral claim that Mythos had cracked classified government systems, later described as a planned drill. That history makes his skepticism more specific than casual criticism. A Bitcoin wallet drain would not require breaking cryptographic signatures. BitGo’s custody model uses a two-of-three key arrangement: clients hold two keys, while BitGo holds one, meaning no single party can sign a transaction alone. An attacking AI would therefore need to steal private keys, compromise devices, or manipulate people. That operational path is familiar to custody teams, and BitGo’s own filing acknowledges that wallets and vaults cannot be guaranteed against hacking or compromise. The filing also points to the $1.5 billion Bybit theft in February 2025 as a reminder that cold-storage assumptions can fail. Some traders reacted with doomsday jokes, saying BTC could go to zero within 30 minutes if Anthropic succeeded. That reaction overstates the immediate risk, but it shows how sensitive Bitcoin’s security narrative remains. A public bear-market reaction would likely be driven by market confidence, not by a change in the protocol’s mathematics. Anthropic had not publicly accepted the challenge as of Sunday.

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