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In brief OpenClaw’s Discord now bans any mention of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Steinberger says token promoters and scams drove the crackdown. The policy comes as he begins working at OpenAI. After his app went viral earlier last month, Peter Steinberger—the creator of the buzzy AI agent framework OpenClaw—confirmed the ban of any mention of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency from the project’s Discord server. Steinberger reiterated the ban after a user on X said Saturday that they were blocked from the OpenClaw Discord server. “We have strict server rules that you accepted [when] you entered the server,” Steinberger wrote. “No crypto mention whatsoever is one of them.”  Other users on X said even neutral references to Bitcoin led to moderation. The decision follows statements in which Steinberger said scammers tried to profit from the popularity of OpenClaw, and that he received harassment and threats tied to cryptocurrency activity. “To all crypto folks,” he wrote on X in January. “Please stop pinging me, stop harassing me. I will never do a coin. Any project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM.” OpenClaw—originally called Clawdbot—gained attention as an open-source framework for building AI agents, software designed to perform tasks for users autonomously. As interest in OpenClaw grew, so did the harassment Steinberger said he faced from some in the crypto space who sought to profit from a purported connection to the project. In a recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, he said he underestimated that community. “On this project, they’ve been swarming me,” he said. “Every half hour, someone came into Discord and spammed it, and we had to block people.” He said that led to the no-Bitcoin, no-crypto, no-finance rule. “I’m not interested in that, and this is a space about the project, not finance stuff,” Steinberger told Friedman.…

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