BitGo CEO Advertises His Own Wallet: Puts Up 100 Bitcoins to Challenge Claude

According to Dynamic Beating's monitoring, Anthropic disclosed that Claude inadvertently breached three real companies during a security test, leading BitGo CEO Mike Belshe to question the company's use of incident-fueled marketing.

He deposited 100 bitcoins into a BitGo wallet, publicly shared the address, and challenged Claude to "take it," attempting to use this $6.3 million bounty to prove that Claude wasn't as dangerous as Anthropic claimed.

However, Anthropic did not assert that Claude had breached tightly guarded systems. In the three incidents, the model, upon receiving a specific attack task, exploited weak passwords, exposed interfaces, and leaked credentials to access real systems. Anthropic also attributed the issues to the testing environment accidentally connecting to the public network and monitoring failures.

Belshe's challenge posed a completely different scenario. He only disclosed the wallet address without providing any attack vectors such as accounts, devices, or keys. For Claude to withdraw the funds, they would need to breach BitGo's key management and approval systems.

This challenge did not refute the incidents disclosed by Anthropic but instead shifted the focus to BitGo's key product capability: as long as the funds remain untouched, the 100 bitcoins will continuously prove the wallet's security.