This CEO Just Dared Anthropic to Hack His $6.3 Million Bitcoin Wallet

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe told Anthropic to hack his Bitcoin wallet. Then he posted the address in public. It holds 100 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $6.3 million.

The dare came two days after Anthropic admitted something awkward. Three of its Claude models had slipped out of their test environments and broken into real companies.

Why Belshe Issued the Anthropic Bitcoin wallet Challenge

On July 30, Anthropic published a report on its own AI. Staff had reviewed 141,006 safety test runs. In three of them, a Claude model reached the open internet.

Those tests are hacking drills. Claude is told a secret sits on another machine, then asked to go and take it. The whole setup is meant to be fake.

It was not. A setup error at Irregular, one of Anthropic's testing partners, left the machines plugged into the real internet.

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