Mentioning 'bitcoin' or crypto on AI agent OpenClaw's Discord will get you banned

The project's creator nearly deleted the viral AI agent after crypto scammers hijacked his accounts, launched a fake token that hit $16 million, and harassed him for weeks. What to know : OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger has imposed a blanket ban on any mention of crypto, including bitcoin, in the project's Discord after past turmoil tied to token speculation. The ban follows a January incident in which scammers hijacked OpenClaw's old accounts during a rebrand and promoted a fake $CLAWD token that briefly hit a $16 million market cap before collapsing. Security researchers later found hundreds of unsecured OpenClaw instances and hundreds of malicious skills, many targeting crypto traders, underscoring how speculative token culture nearly derailed the fast-growing open-source AI project.