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Ad Home / Crypto News / BitGo CEO Mike Belshe Rejects Claim That AI Can Break Bitcoin BitGo CEO Mike Belshe Rejects Claim That AI Can Break Bitcoin 08 Oct, 2026 By Varinder Singh Varinder Singh

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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has rejected the claim that artificial intelligence (AI) will break Bitcoin’s cryptography. However, he agreed with concerns over the need to protect crypto wallets now for post-quantum risks

On October 8, Belshe reacted to Bitcoin security researcher Justin Drake’s call to begin planning for “bunker mode” and transfer crypto assets to new addresses. Belshe agreed with Drake’s conclusion to protect wallets now but disagrees with the thesis that AI will crack Bitcoin

He noted that BitGo has implemented a Quantum Resistance Score that shows what percentage of a crypto wallet is protected and how many Bitcoin wallet addresses are exposed

The features also include a one-click fix that moves funds into fresh, unexposed addresses, and an updated UTXO selection algorithm optimized for quantum resistance rather than only for fees

Notably, Bitcoin addresses such as standard legacy (P2PKH) and modern SegWit formats are obfuscated by cryptographic hashing rather than exposing raw public keys to the public ledger

As CoinGape reported recently, BitGo’s institutional client base grew from 4,621 to 5,833 in Q2 2026, while normalized assets increased from $49.6 billion to $65.2 billion. Banks use BitGo’s Crypto-as-a-Service models to integrate digital assets while retaining control over security, governance, and compliance

Mike Belshe earlier challenged Anthropic to hack a wallet holding 100 BTC, sharing the address as proof after disputing AI hacking claims earlier this year. Belshe’s latest response separates that urgency about key hygiene from the stronger claim that AI has already put Bitcoin’s signatures on a short clock

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns AI-accelerated maths could weaken lattice-based cryptography in 2 years. Not only quantum-vulnerable crypto schemes like ECDSA but lattice-based cryptography like ML-DSA and FHE are also under risks

Buterin said Ethereum has focused on a “hash-only” direction rather than lattices. He claimed that hash-based methods are more resistant to AI-accelerated attacks. Vitalik Buterin advises off-chain multisig confirmations and fresh addresses to minimize AI risks

Meanwhile, Europol urged crypto industry to begin preparing for quantum computing threats early. The agency warned that crypto wallets are the primary point of exposure to quantum attacks

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