{"id":27218,"date":"2026-02-16T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=27218"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:41:15","slug":"the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2026\/02\/16\/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is &#8230; a crypto bro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A software maintainer rejected a code patch from an AI bot. The bot \u2014 that is, its operator \u2014 then put up a blog post defaming the maintainer for rejecting AI bot contributions!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be\u00a0<em>shocked<\/em> to hear the bot operator appears to be a crypto bro, trying to scam the other crypto scammers operating AI bots. [<a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/2026\/02\/16\/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro\/\"><em>Pivot to AI<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>AI is still Crypto 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2026\/02\/16\/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro\/robot-blowing-raspberry\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27219\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robot-blowing-raspberry.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robot-blowing-raspberry.webp 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robot-blowing-raspberry-300x185.webp 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robot-blowing-raspberry-348x215.webp 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is still Crypto 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3515,3885,3884,3883],"class_list":["post-27218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ai","tag-crabby-rathbun","tag-moltbook","tag-openclaw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robot-blowing-raspberry.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27224,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218\/revisions\/27224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}