The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

Related:

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051956

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-open...

And, it's David Gerard!

Look, this is actually one of the few applications where crypto actually makes sense, NullC did convince me of that. Agents paying their own way. Note how it's USDC: fiat-tied, not a deflationary hodl-coin.

I mean, I like Gorillawarfare and NullC, and think they're both right in different ways. And I'm not sorry. Not going to relitigate here.

(And, Sorry David, if you read HN too: I've often seen you be right, but I've been digging here too, and you jumped the gun on this one. )

Blog post instead of video: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-open...

I don't think the operator was as hands on as this video claims. Pretty sure I'm the one who got it to make that half ass apology, for what ever reason (curiosity,research) I've been paying attention to it. You can see thought and progress docs, as well as evidence of cron schedules.

What an annoyingly condescending video with very little info. Obviously someone has to install the bot, how do we jump from that to determining whether they prompted the blogpost or not?