Charles Hoskinson’s partner-chain Midnight falsely claims to be “working with Google”

midnight is not actually "partnering" nor "collaborating" with google. midnight is paying google for services available for everyone.

it's common, yet heavily frowned upon in the broader tech industry to say your company is "partnered with Amazon" just for using AWS (virtually every tech company ever uses AWS or an equivalent, like Google Cloud).

announcements like the attached hurt cardano for one big reason:

they make the genuine wins from the ecosystem (like governance) look over-exaggerated.

cardano really struggles with this connotation, and it's largely in part because of announcements like this.

it's either grossly incompetent or actively deceitful to announce information this way. be advised.