Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
Coinbase, Block, BitGo and dozens of others signed a letter arguing that safety guardrails on frontier models are blocking legitimate security work while adversaries face no such limits.
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Summary
- More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto firms are urging major AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most powerful models, arguing defenders are using weaker tools than attackers.
- The letter, organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute and signed by companies including Coinbase, Block and ARK Invest, says Bitcoin Core developers are locked out of trusted-partner programs and hampered by safety filters on public models.
- Recent exploits against BTCPay Server and Lightning nodes, uncovered in part by an AI-powered volunteer “Bitcoin Red Team,” underscore the signatories’ call for early model access, compute resources, secure testing environments and direct channels to lab security teams.
