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Facebook have it new policy pertaining to initial coins offerings 'ICOs' . The policy specifically prohibits ads that promote ICO on it platform.
The banned is due to the fact there are so many companies who are advertising ICOs that are not currently operating in good standards and faith.
In the meantime, Facebook is encouraging people to report content that violates this new policy.
What effect do you think this will have on ICOs and future  of cryptocurrencies?

Facebook, as a place where there are any and all people wasn't the best place to advertise ICOs anyway, so this won't influence crowdfunding process much. Apart from the specialized forums, like Bitcointalk, there are still Reddit and Quora :)

A newcomers won't show up here because facebook is the source of audience where an average joe learns cryptocurrency.
It will affect but not drastic in 1% of investors, I knew someone who invested in an ICO and that projects shoot up to the moon that advertisements that he see was from facebook.

I guess the big investor is also lurking in the facebook community for some mundane routine.

Well, I think existing ICO pages are remaining, but without ads, just for conversation and any updates for community

But we do know that famous social media like facebook do have lots of users on it even though it is not crypto related traffic but yet the potential on hooking up potential investors would really be there but i do agree on what you said that there still other places which can actually get crypto-related people that would really tend to join up on these crowdfundings.

Pretty much none. Facebook has a lot of people but there's also twitter, instagram, youtube, linkedin, pinterest as well.... So there are still places to advertise on, facebook isn't the only social network out there.

But they are one of the most popular and the best place to advertise such projects and products. They have the best traffic next to google.

Only those paid ads are not allowed by facebook but when is that effective? Is someone here still seeing those paid ICO ads on their fb profiles?

Actually its a low effect although its one of the best way to raise awareness to such projects so awareness will be slowed down.

not denying that but what's the demographic on facebook? More people can be found, that are actually interested or can be interested, on some other social networks that have groups of the different interests separated slightly.

That directly shows how much of a pooled effort is needed to eliminate all the con artists that are draining this community. I am sure that if there will be a global front created, where even this forum will start showing its teeth in the battle against the rotten part of this ecosystem, the scams making use of smart marketing on social media will then be suffering a major blow. I hope that this forum will step up and act as well, because there is no denying that bitcointalk forms an important hotspot. It's great to have a certain extent of freedom here, but there is no need to give scams and schemes plenty of space to operate in.

Actually if your friends in facebook are not real friends i think even you promote or post some topics about crypto i think no one will believe in you but if you know all your friends in facebook that's good to use,me as a user of social site like twitter and facebook i already have 700+ friends in fb but the real friends only there are 200+ and in twitter i think even i have 3000k followers i have only 100+ real friends so it's nothing even you have a lot of friends in social site because they will not believe in you and i don't use that to earn here that's a lie for me.

most of my friends on facebook doesnt even know what ICO's stand for. and most of them thinks bitcoin and crypto in general is nothing but a scam. i'd have to join facebook groups to get the attention and information that i need.. so facebook banning ico may not be a good news but i doubt that it will have significant effect at all. plus.we can always use alternatives like twitter, youtube, telegram and discord along with any other blogsites out there.

until now i still see a few ICO on my newsfeed. there are so many rumors why Facebook Ban ico.. some people claim cause there are many ico were scam , some people claim that because facebook want to luch their crptocurrency.

if ico was banned by facebook that can effect to bitcoin. Bitcoin will price go down down down again because without ico bitcoin will go down.

That is true but international corporates and banking system does not want bitcoin to be known to all the people that is the effect Government regulating cryptocurrencies and bans for advertising bitcoin and ICO on Facebook
If we all fuck out the illuminaties from the crypto currency side. We will find the bitcoin and all the cryptos good in the market. Since media telecasting does not know about bitcoin. They are trolling out BTC.

This is why media taking advantage on fucking out peoples mind who don't have any idea on whats crypto and when heard and putted in their minds once they do encounter crypto related things they would consider it as a scam. They do ban one of the mediums on where advertising is really a good place since fb do have a high traffic and most people of the world make use of it.

i cant see anything that affect a huge scar on bitcoin industry since there are lot of platform to showcase that ICO therefore the ICO will find a new way to reach people thru social media , twitter are still existing and also youtube are there  but has not used by many so they can used youtube as an alternative to facebook..

I don't know why, but my Facebook news feed are still full of ICO advertisements. Looks that this ban isn't effective so far.
It's hard to tell how ban of ICO advertisement will affect crypto industry. I don't know how much money Facebook are getting from all these ICO advertisers, but I suppose that FB wouldn't cut off branch that they are sitting on. Yes, there are other social networks like Twitter, Instagram and others, but they are less popular and it's proably more difficult to find targeted audience for advertisers. So, I think that ban of ICO advertisements will have more or less meaningful impact.
But I imagine what would happend if Google will decide ban advertisements of ICO's, cryptocurrencies on Adwords. It's probably the most effective and most used method to reach potential investors. And there aren't good alternatives for it.

The effect has been effective immediately and I have a feeling that this is related to the plummeting of bitcoin. Adding to the impact of the slow down for its increase that resulted to a big crisis while there's a big crash that's happening. This can be experienced for now but as others said that its only a very minimal effect as cryptocurrencies are growing, people are becoming aware of it and they are starting to have an idea that they can have a good return with ICO's so they will keep on finding out the best place to advertise and investors will just use search engines for these projects to chase them.

Facebook is considered as first social media platform right now, its having the most active and biggest community. Its decision of banning the ICO ads will affect the ICO projects surely, but luckily the crypto community is more active in Twitter and Telegram, so it is not a great lose for the devs in my opinion.

This move was done to prevent scam ICO projects getting away with investors' money since Facebook was a platform used for advertising and keeping in touch with investors. Inevitably, they ended up banning all ICO related ads which was the right move since encouraging ads might which turn out to be scams would be a wrongdoing on their part, allowing FB users to interact and invest in potentially bogus projects.


While Facebook drew a lot of attention and traffic for ICOs, this move essentially means one less social media for exposure of  projects. This isn't exactly the end of the line since there are lot of other platforms which can be made use of for advertising projects and attracting investors.

I agree. Moreover, I don't think there is a fallout on Facebook's move.
If you'll just noticed the past ICO advertisements , there isn't much traction & interest when compared to other social media giants like Twitter (which have a lot of discussions/comments taking in on the project).

They just clear the space for advertising their own cryptocurrency and/or ICO.  8)

in my opinion it would be better for ICO`s as they would have to make more stable marketing strategies and attract real investors on the other hand I think that this will promote the growth of blockchain based social media platforms like Steem.

Already everyone got know about bitcoin and ICO investment. I do not think that it will affect the crypto market. Moreover i think it is a positive information according to my view. After they banned you may find the investor look to promote in the forum and twitter alone.
People does not understand what will after one move corporate only feel bad. Investors holding for long time does not care at all.

It really would not have much influence on ICOs. Google ads are still often used for ICOs, twitter at least for now still available and some other various options as well. A lot of real investors are even hardly found on Facebook anyway. Most of them make use of some ICO listing webs, or twitter to get ICOs they can partake in. So at the end, Facebookwill just have a very minute impact that won't be felt at all.

Firstly, Facebook is not the only platform that adverts are done, and even though automatically Instagram is affected, I really do not see how this can have a huge effect on ICOs. Twitter is still there, articles are written to promote ICOs, the forum is also there as well and there are some websites that ICOs are promoted as well. At the end of it all, ICO's progress is not tied to Facebook’s advert.

Facebook's involvement with ICOs is a ban on advertising. Because there are so many ICO scam models advertising on Facebook that lead people to cheat and lose all their investment in ICOs. It does not affect Facebook bounty campaigns at all because it is not a form of advertising on Facebook.

Facebook ban ICO and bitcoin ads to avoid or to reduce the deceptive information or scams.

This kind of banned could really affect in case of contacting people by each other but there are some other schemes to communicate y Telegram or Twitter.

And maybe it's because of the amount of fraud (scams) or uncertainty about the advertisements that's related to the crypto.
By the way.. it's just on facebook, there are still many other social medias that can be used for advertising about cryptos / ICOs.
I think this only gives a temporary negatively effect only.

There is a big difference between investing in Bitcoin and investing in ICOs, so whatever happens to ICOs has nothing to do with the price rate for Bitcoin. And I believe that the reason Facebook banned ICOs is because there are lots of fake ones, so they won’t like to see their platform being used to promote scam and the rest of them. It’s likely that people has been reporting such advertisements on Facebook, especially those that hates Facebook.

Facebook is one of the best social media used by almost all users but it is not the only platform for advertising, so a ban on this wont have strong effect on ICO projects as still there are lot to promote like twitter, instagram, telegram, by any one means people will be aware of ICOs.

It can create an huge trouble for those weak hand people and we can see some dumps if this one will be happen, but this one will be temporarily happen since their are still faceboon bounty ads will exist and huge whales,investors will see the coin product since the bounty participants itself will spread the word about their project.

This takes a pretty big toll on all projects really. Advertisement is huge and has a pretty big impact on the investors who are planning on getting in. The only thing I can see that might not make this as bad is that a lot of average users on Facebook probably barely know about bitcoin, much less ICO's. So it's possible that the lack of advertisement on facebook isn't as big as it seems, but I think that theory is a pretty big stretch myself.

ICO's need to get out and let people know about their projects as much as possible if they plan on being successful. It's the way start-ups make it big, and I see ICO's as nothing more than a start-up, albeit in a more developmental stage.

It's not the first social media platform right now. It's the most popular but it's not considered as the first social media platform. And whether they ban ICO's advertisement they really doesn't care about it because there are other ways to advertise and not only through them.

I don't think it made a big effect on ICOs because still facebook campaigns can do their job but only the paid promotions is restricted.Ans facebook is not a major platform of advertising about ICOs since many common people even don't know that word initial coin offering(ICO).But twitter has a big part in advertising about the new projects because most of the crypto related users uses twitter to get the latest news.
But many people think that facebook banned the ICO ads but they only stopped promoting them so banned is not a perfect word because it convey negativity to the people.

There might be a loss of advertising area or space but to think off not only facebook is the place on where those ICO could able to promote their crowdfunding yet there are still lots of places to choose from and also not all people on facebook are aware of crytpocurrencies existence which means theres still be some chances but it would rather be small on getting investors.If its banned then let it be but it cant really completely stop the ICO trend.

Facebook bans only really bad ads which are making fake offers, promotions with posts and reposts still ok.

Nothing. Everybody knows that most of these icos are scam. Scam projects harm Crypto Market really...And these links around... I am over REFICOAIRDROPPED ! 

I think now everything is fine and I still see a lot of ads about ICO project again =.=. It's very noisy and uncomfortable although I clicked to hide the ads several times but it's still there. But luckily for now I also can send any link on Bitcointalk to my friend again without any "space" between the link anymore.LOL

not big effect
because baned only paid advertise, ico project still can open facebook campaign

I don't think a big impact will be found on the ico's just because of the ban of cryptocurrency related ads on Facebook. Now the concern project team will find a way to promote through different platform similar to telegram to reach out the people.

Icos just lost a place where they can advertise, but that is not a problem, they have many other social networks for that. Its questionable how popular Facebook is for bitcoin users, I saw that bounty campaigns are paying more for posting on twitter, medium, and telegram is very popular too.
Facebook is very big, they can't stay immune on crypto, they will need to find a way to get into all this, by accepting crypto or making their own ico. What ever they do it will be big, because they are big, and they have a lot of people there, they have money to finance what ever they wish and ways to promote it. Probably their only problem for now is legality, they can't make anything now and risk to be banned in many countries. When we see more regulations in crypto world, we can expect Facebook to make their own alt.

As others have said, only ICO ads will be banned. So ICOs can't pay for sponsored ads about their tokensale. If anything, this could mean more Facebook bounties since ICOs will rely on private users to spread the word about them. I think it is a loss on Facebook's part, but then ICOs can pay for ads in more crypto-centric platforms. Only ones that need mass adoption or general use will benefit from Facebook ads as not many come to Bitcointalk.

I actually heard from someone that some of their pages were locked out and they were told to contact the admin to get it sorted out. I would not blame them anyway, it is for a good cause and I am sure a lot of users could have complained, maybe after getting scammed by some of the adverts. They had a very good reason to stop the adverts, but in terms of the impact it would have on ICOs, I doubt if it will ever be much.

ico will have no choice than to put the work into bounty hunters hands. increase facebook bounty and allow more participant to spread the information. although this might not be more effective than placing ads but it might work as well

Facebook prohibits ICO advertising, which in no way affects the ICO bounty, because, in bounty campaigns, every user has to write their own ICO postings and post them to Facebook, without having to use the form of advertising. So it does not affect ICO's bounty campaigns.

Pretty much nothing unless Facebook takes the consideration of use of cryptos for money sending or remittances. Almost every group page in the site regarding cryptos were mostly hidden rather than even promoted. People who join facebook bounty to advertise the ICOs doesn't get that much of attention because the crypto itself isn't really "known" but people are sort of "aware" to it. If there will be specific effect then:

-Spams from the site will be greatly reduced, because all those people out there tend to spam by sharing lots of content from the ICO page they need to do their obligation.

-It will have mirror-effect in the people's mind in the silence of these advertisement. Instead of thinking of it as a scam, they will be more curious to it. Most likely they will always start with Bitcoin or Ethereum

-The traffic of advertisement of the ICO will increase in the Twitter due to recent ban. It is social media, people will do everything to promote or market their service or product.

-More ICOs will fail? I don't think so. Facebook is a really large site, let's accept it but because of its largeness in a single or main purpose, people would likely just use to to chat people. The trust level in advertisement in Facebook isn't really as high as what we can assume. There are a lot of investors in Facebook but could they really trust something that fluctuates?

In general, we shouldn't worry about it. Facebook might "look like" the largest opportunity to earn a lot of investors in the crowdfunding of the ICOs but it could make things worse if these keeps going as not all the ICOs are legit and it could just cause degrade in the crypto if the new crypto investors will find out that the project was just a fraud all these time.

We need to accept it because the popular it become, more scammers are getting attracted to enter this industry and fool more people. I think Mark Zuckerburg thought that it's  a very risky investment that they are entering having only less knowledge about it.

facebook only banned ico ads, ico will rely on private users to spread the word about them. but I'm sure ico has a lot of social networking so they do not just rely on facebook only

Yeah, without Facebook it's not a big issue in promoting ICO's ads. Facebook is not a good place to promote ICO's, it's for social and family connections. We still have a twitter, Instagram and telegram to name some useful social media sites and also they can use Reddit, cryptocompare and here bitcointalk.org.
Nothing to worry as cryptoworld is still good without Facebook.

Many of traders are thinking that facebook ads caused this dip but crypto world run twitter and telegram more than Facebook.and global market was down so it was expected dip of btc. And one more thing that cause this further dip was fud rumors created by media that india was going to ban cryptocurrency.so Facebook ban hardly caused any dips.

will have zero to no effect,only would decrease the amount of SMM advertising for the shit ICOs
there were not many anyways,Facebook ads are expensive and with less effectiveness than Google ads or Twitter,for example
but Facebook follows Youtube's footsteps,only it is a different category ban,but the big companies do not like to be associated with dubious content
be it facebook,youtube or any other social media-more than 20% of ICO funds have been stolen or misused,according to a research
so there is no doubt you as a potential content viewer would be better off not being able to see a scam ICO ad on facebook

They are really less ineffective since we do know that most people dont really have idea on what crypto is and as you said they are expensive compared into google ads or just simply on twitter basis. I dont have any idea on the statistics regarding on that 20% which i wasnt aware but yet we do saw that certain percentage is misused. This is actually an advantage for people on not being scammed.

Facebook can make ICO influence slowdown but cannot make it unknown ICO. There are more social media in the computer system such as telegram, twitter, and YouTube maybe we can include the yahoo, google, and amazon.

We can experience some little downfall of advertisement and certain ICO exposure for the meantime but it will not affect on for its entire running since facebook is only banning the pay ads on their site and people who's joining their social camp can still share the words on their facebook friends and this one could still make the ICO's exposure go wider again.

but I do not understand the prohibition of such actions on Facebook. How do they harm the project itself or visitors to this social network? At least it seems to me that this ban can have far-reaching plans.

Dude, try to read the post carefully and understand it. Facebook banning the promotion of ICOs on their platform has nothing to do with people dumping Bitcoin and all that. This is a different case, and by the way, the price of Bitcoin didn’t fall just because of Facebook banning ICOs, these are two different cases. Bitcoin is falling, and that’s just a normal thing which occurs as a result of being highly volatile.

So does this mean that the same policy of not allowing the promotion of ICOs will be applied on Instagram, cause Facebook is also the same organization that runs Instagram? Well, I don’t think it will really affect Bitcoin that much, there are still other ways to promote ICOs, but the problem is just that there isn’t one as Facebook. With Facebook, ICOs would be able to reach a lot of people more than it will do in other social medias.

I don't think anyone would believe you if you were promoting some sort of encryption on Facebook. Some people claim that many ico is a hoax.

Facebook is not doing good for banning ICO's or Crypto coins advertisement, ICO's are not like hyips,ptc sites or any other ponzi schemes it is like pure investment and now maximum ICO's KYC is compulsory so it is unfair by Facebook.Facebook is world largest advertisement media so it will definitely effect the incoming ICO's business.

I don’t know if this is going to have any effect on Bitcoin and ICOs, but one thing I know for sure is that there isn’t any social media like Facebook, though Google+ seems a little similar, but there are more population in Facebook than on Google+ and Facebook is also fun and easy to use, you can reach a lot of audience there and get page to promote what you want. Maybe companies will have to move over to other social medias like Twitter and Instagram. Don’t know about Reddit, but it ain’t a place for promoting.

It's of no use. The major social media platforms are cleaning house, and thus will result in similar practices of these platforms overall. The main point is that the multinationals having billions of dollars as marketing budged, have started to demand for critical changes of the social media platforms. To put force behind their words, they have started to reduce their marketing budged that would usually flow into Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc. That very well explains the sudden policy changes of these social media platforms, and it will only get worse. All these social media platforms thrive on ad revenue, and the multinationals know that, and aren't shy of demanding more changes. If this gets taken out of proportions too much, we'll only be left with my little pony ads on social media. :D

they only banning ads for crypto or ICO, not banning crypto or ICO page, thats not big problem. ICO or crypto devs can open facebook bounty, they still can promoting their program on fb. about effective or not, i dont know, but its like effective

I do not know this certainty, about Facebook tire crypto.
I still see some people sharing news or advertisements about ICO.
even facebook social media campaigns are still valid and have not been deleted.
no problem for me.

Considering the impact and popularity of facebook with people in general, I think it will have a slight effect on ICOs these days.
It may not be that big of deal since there are other social media platforms that are significantly if not more effective
and popular as facebook. Maybe the band is temporary at the moment, facebook does have an addictive or
attaching influence with people. With the promotions and advertisements of icos and cryptocurrency,
they will thrive and adjust as long as there are extra social media options and the internet.

Facebook is the best social media for promoting a business. I know that some people used all these iCOs for spam and Facebook did a good thing by banning iCOs to prevent spamming, but the and side of it is that there are some good iCOs that are still starting up and needs a good source or media to promote themselves, and with Facebook banning every form ICOs, it will be difficult for these new ones to start up successfully.

Its true that Facebook is the number 1 social media out there. But them banning ICO would have any significant effect on the legit ICO's. There are other social media platform that they can used to promote their project. And if their project are trusted and legit then people will know about it through other outlets without Facebook. It can even spread through word by mouth. The only one that will be really affected are those scam ICO's, which in the first place is Facebook's reason behind why they are banning ICO advertisement. And I lauded Mark Z moves, there might be pressure from the government though, but I think its the right move.

This is a good decision by Facebook to curb the nefarious activities of some ICOs although traffic-wise this will reduce the  income accruing to Facebook but I belief this is a right decision to restore sanity into the system and to reduce scams.

I agree with this statement, since facebook is the most known  social media site, we will lost a big oportunity to be known or to be seen by millions or should i say billions of facebook user that can be a potential investor.

It is difficult to know, many icos are using social media to promote their projects and facebook is one of the biggest websites around the world so icos will be affected but with so many alternatives it is doubtful this is going to be a big blow, the problem is we are seeing many accumulative news against icos in the previous months and when you add the effects of all of those news then a decrease on investments must be happening.

Don't take everything for granted just because Facebook has a massive potential reach. The thing with Facebook ads is that the far majority of the people don't pay attention to them due to all the garbage ads.

They have been allowing basically any entity to advertise something that either doesn't make any sense, or was something that looked like an almost obvious ponzi scheme.

From there it's very easy to assume that it won't have an impact at all on crypto. There are much better ways of getting yourself known as crypto business ~ facebook ads were known to be a ponzi fest, and nothing more.

Not something you as legitimate minded crypto business wants to be associated with.

It will not reduce the income of facebook as they have a lot of advertisers since before the ICO days.
Yeah this will do the thing as facebook will help things out and it will definitely reduce the scams that are circulating on their social network although it won't be totally gone but its a good way to moderate.

it will be more expensive for ICO founders to advertise given the crypto prices in crypto land have ballooned!

I still insist that ICO can still be seen on different media platforms, theirs twitter,reddit or anything you can use with and also people can still share the articles about the ICO so their's still ways to scattered the news and gathered some investors for it and I see so many ICO's are still successful eventhough the facebook ads has been eliminated.

For me as investors. it is good to ban ICO on facebook because I was one of the victim this scheme. I purchase worth 4,000 USD of Regen.IO ico.. they run all my money. I was amaze by their line that it will go to moon. they promote their ICO on facebook. they sponsored it . not only me has fallen to their hand. Recently I found out that it was a Vietnamese company. If you see an ICO group with name of NGUYEN. that is the name of the admin of regen.io.. they run my 4,000 usd of investment.

Facebook is spreading rapidly to everyone. If only a certain information was posted, only a few seconds later someone would like to comment. Should banning the ICO also spread quickly. That could cause their prices to fall.

he definitely influenced, but I think not much. People's belief in cryptocurrency and its bright future will still win the fight for its distribution.

I don't think facebook and Mark Zuckerberg would leave its decision on visited. Cryptocurrency is a new technological advancement and facebook is one of the most visited social media by youth. I think crypto apps on facebook should even help to draw more traffic for facebook.

Funny enough, the real investors do not make use of just one platform to get an investment opportunity. Reddit, Medium, Twitter and some other reliable platforms are still there for them to get information. I invest in ICOs and most times I get some on twitter while I make use of ICO drops to just do some other research and check some other ones with prospects. Who cares about Facebook anyway?

I can't see anything that will affect the bitcoin industry, because there are many platforms that can show ICO.

There are twitter, instagram, youtube, linkedin, pinterest, and so on.

Facebook is not the only social network.

Facebook would have been a great help to increase the awareness for an ICO promotion, however facebook have already come up with the decision to ban ICO advertisement in their platform. But there's nothing to worry for ICO marketing as there are other sites where they can promote and increase their crowd sale like instagram, twitter, YouTube those are just a few. But if there will be increase in ICO related scam, I wouldn't be surprise if ither sites would also ban it.

Honestly, at the end it only affects Facebook hugely considering the amount that is being generated with those adverts of ICOs alone. It must have taken a huge one to be able to come up with the policy of not going ahead with advertisement of ICOs. On the other hand as well, it may have just a little bit of effect on ICOs, knowing Facebook has never been the only source where they get their traffic, and from the look of things and how ICOs have been so far, I can say they are still doing pretty well.

The fact is that all social networks including Twitter and Facebook were originally resources for communication and communication in the community, And today these sites have turned into advertising resources, where they advertise a particular product. so I'm not surprised that Facebook decided to ban ico of the company.

This is just another example of why decentralization is needed, whenever centralization occurs that becomes a point of failure, altcoins and icos depend on social media to spread the word about their projects, but since those websites only care about the money they can get from ads then it is easy to manipulate them in order to comply and do what it is in the best interest of banks.

There is what they call traditional Facebook advert where you can make payment, have a banner and then your banner or your page can be targeted to the users of Facebook based on the demographics you set.

Here, you have to pay in USD, and this is what was banned. It has nothing to do with the pages, or the bounty campaigns, as obviously this will keep going on, but the other side of it, like how we have Google ad but this time Facebook ad, that is what you won't be seeing anymore, at least for now.

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I don’t think it will be having any effect on ICOs, unless maybe it will reduce their rate of success or something like that. I don’t know how to explain what I mean. But Facebook is not the only social media out there. There are others like Twitter, LinkedIn and the rest of them, although I don’t know if others would be effective as Facebook.

Trust mate, it won’t. Those who are always interested in ICOs anyway will still try to find a way to get their information irrespective of the advert. This is just Facebook advert we are talking about which obviously affects Instagram as well since the ad is being operated by Facebook. Facebook gave a very valid reason and it is just people trying to make FUD out of it though, but I do not see this to have a huge impact, knowing that there are other easy means that advert can be done and effective as well.

Yeah and that is still going on anyway. This would not have a major effect which is one thing I know. Most of these projects have even seen bounty as the easiest way, where they won't have to pay much except in their own tokens, while they get their projects out there, and unless Facebook wants to start banning accounts that are advertising cryptocurrencies, which is not possible, then Facebook deciding to halt cryptocurrency advert will really have a tiny impact that can't even be felt.

So true, they are just ruining the name of this technology. They are making false sales and then ran away like rats when the crowdsale ends. That is also the reason why I don't invest in ICO's anymore.
But there still so many advertisements that I'm seeing in FB these days, and I think when it comes in spreading popularity of the new ICO (or platform), individuals who are keep sharing the platforms ideas throughout in every corner of the facebook can't be stop. So I think Banning ICO's advertisements won't have a dent in their sales.

Totally agree with you guys. Facebook and even Insta are not the greatest resource of information for crypto markets. As well as smart made bounty allows to bypass this ban:)  So in general not much will change.

Actually banning the ads icon on facebook has no effect on anything.There are many other places to promote it, do not be afraid and worry.Let the facebook do what they want, we obey it.

Until now facebook page about ICO still exist. I don't know parameter facebook to rejected ICO because we knows ICO just a name, i means the company is real and needs promote to get investor. Facebook is a big social media and i think ICO will be still exist in there.

I think the same, that ICO promotion using facebook is not proven to give a good impact ,, maybe facebook only play about 3-5% of the success of ICO ,, I myself not too intense to malakukan / follow the promotion of ICO using facebook ,, and kesimpulanya that the ban on facebook has no great influence to seek or provoke investor interest there

I don't think this case will affect too much to cryptocurrency and ICOs project :). Facebook is a good place to promote new ICO but it's not the only place that ICOs can be promoted. But for now I still can be able to see a lot of advertise about ICO project on Facebook, maybe they've removed banning with cryptocurrency.

It will decrease the funds they get and to be honest I do not think that is so bad, some icos have ridiculous expectations about the money they need to make the project a reality, the ico was supposed to be a way to help the developers to create a project not a way to make them rich with our money but that is the posture many icos have by not having a hard cap or by having a very high hard cap.

If your question was what would be the effect on ICOs if Facebook puts a ban on cryptocurrency advertisement, then the answer is quite simply not much of an effect may be the ICOs would lose one platform for advertisement. There are many other social media's where ICOs do their advertisement through us. So that wouldn't make a whole big of an effect to the advertisements of ICOs.

I'm sure it still affecting ICO project as if Facebook bans ICOs ads then ICOs project will lose a place to advertise the project. Indeed there are still many place to advertise but losing a potential place for advertisement is a disadvantage for any projects.
It is also affecting facebook income from the ads, so you cant say it has no effects at all. Other effects could be related to bounty hunters.

If it is been affected. We already found the many bounty campaigns stopped the Facebook campaigning. I do not understand whether facebook banned the ICO and bitcoin related advertisement or not.
When goes to surf on Facebook I am seeing the advertisement of many ICO projects.
Hope we can make money via FB still so no need to worry at all.

Facebook is full of groups and communities of companies that conduct ICO. It seems that only paid advertising of ICO is banned there. And reposts of projects continue to appear, they haven't gone anywhere and nobody banned them. Everything is ok.

I'm not sure if they are really banning ICO advertisements there, as I see, there are still many kinds of advertisements on their platform about Crypto-Currency in general. Maybe they refrained about heavily censoring these advertisements fearing the consequences, what could boost another social media platform and decrease their influence on the internet, as people would find new ways to promote ICOs, letting Facebook aside.

Agreed, i think facebook can't detect all those advertisement on some ICOs or they just allow some of it. This news has been a month now but the advertisements of ICO i just browsed here and in other sites still popping out on my news feed.

Losing Facebook is big, after all Facebook is probably the biggest social media site in the entire world so they are losing at big platform for them so I think the effects are going to be a lot bigger than many think, this is not going to stop icos, but it is going to slow them down a little bit and when we take into account that the market is kind of slow and the know your customer policy issues then you are talking about a lot of investments lost for the icos.

With the new news that emerged from facebook that facebook no longer allow promoting bitcoin ads on In it, but until now the investors and the bitcoin members will not shake And without facebook bitcoin still running like

I think the effect is only minimal. When it was freshly implemented a lot overreacted, I presume that because Facebook is a really
big social media platform. It isn't something you can ignore, considering the fact that the massive amount of users and publicity
it harbors is incomparable. But with the number of other effective social media platforms out there, ICO's can still advertised and
get on with or without facebook's assistance. Things will get on and progress. Too bad since facebook campaigns are good sources
of income with bounties and campaigns.

facebook campaigns isnt really worth it at all because they only pay a little or less due to the fact that the allocated reward for this bounty is only a small percentage, unlike to sig campaign and other forms of bounty such as translation , blogging , etc. They usually pays higher. anyways , we shoudnt get worry about it because there are still many social media out there like twitter and youtube that we can use inorder to promote a campaign  for advertising purposes.

It is fine actually that they are banning ico's on facebook because it is a social media that was made for people to show their wealth profile and job's , its like show casing everything you have socially and its not about politics or advertisements so its fine if they ban ico's advertisements.

I don't really think many of the good ICOs were reliant on Facebook ads. Not at all. I think the majority of the good projects naturally develop a following. So these are probably just another of many regulations that may actually have a neutral to positive effect

its fine for you because you dont do bounty campaigns but for those who only earn bounty campaigns especially social medias, they were the one who got trully affected to this issue because they cant now do facebook campaigns due to this update.

but they can still do twitter and other social media campaigns if they wanted to and i guess the pay for other social media campaigns is also the same as the one on facebook.

Im also supporting the facebooks decsions regarding this ico ads , not because im anti ico but because those ico or other cryto ads are quite annoying most of the time because they are everywhwre, they seem to invade your screen everytime you browse facebook.

Facebook was never really the place I saw ICO adverts. I think it is too generalist there for much effect. I suspect this action is for when Cryptos become mainstream and then they can keep the frenzied posting down then! :-\

It has nothing to do with regulations at all. It's more something that will help themselves rather than to protect their users against potential scams. It all comes down to the fact that their income is at risk.

Businesses buying ad space just don't want to advertise on a platform that shows their ads alongside crypto or other potentially scam ads. Another aspect is that Facebook tries to distance itself from potential claims.

Unilever just recently threatened to ditch the giants Facebook and Google if they don't get rid of various advertisement categories. Facebook already started, and now it's waiting for Google to show its teeth.

I think this issue is a huge deal for ICO projects and crypto currencies especially were most bounties and signature campaigns uses facebook to advertise their projects so it might affect the amount of investors of this new tokens. Im sure these companies will have an compromise to what ads should be implemented.

I think it will not affect that much bcz for crypto, twitter is more dominant in social media to share the news.and we have google ads promoting the ico so there is nothing to worry,as facebook is going to implement kyc soon as they have also bought a startup ,which will lead to decrease to its user.maybe they implement blockchain to their network to increase their users base.

It does not affect all ICO on facebook. Those who violated the policy are affected. People are just hyping that facebook is banning all ICO but in real, I still see many advertisement associated with ICO.

This is not a big problem to those who are legit, because they can always find a way to solve any negative effects to their project but not to the scammers. Because scammers has limited influence and social media is their best opportunity to scam people.

I think we just need to accept that, and just only use telegram, twitter or Instagram to promote ICO's. That is the only thing I can see to be the best thing to do right now. Unless Facebook will accept's ICO's again.

Same as people facebook should not generalize all ICOs as there are some ICOs that are paying only few arr.scamms or not paying at all. They should properly investigate each ICOs and not banning them right away.

Facebook is a free source for business and earning anyways, if they bann all ICOs then there will be less and less people using facebook as I've noticed most group pages in facebook are all about bitcoins or cryptocurrency itself. And I believe these serious ICOs are paying facebook to be able to advertise their tokens. So yeah, they can earn on it as well.

As for facebook users like me it helps me earn additional income for my child. In fact my call center salary for a month, I can earn it here for days or weeks only so.

With all the shit coins we have all over the place, and scammers running away with crowdfunds, I wouldn't blame a company like FB. If I were Mark Zukerberg I will do the same to protect the reputation of my business. However, with good regulations of ICO's in the future, FB will eventually open back her door's to crypto ADs.
But I think the effect isn't noticeable.

I have the feeling that this is just the beginning, Facebook is the biggest social media website around so it is obvious it was targeted at first because of its influence and this move does not seem like something Facebook would do this is something they did probably because they were pressured to do it and if it worked with Facebook it will probably work with other social media websites.

Losing Facebook is not big, but Facebook losing the revenue they are generating from those ICO adverts is the one that is big. Trust me bro, they have been getting a lot, and it is just because they would want to at least consider the community and the users since they cannot really get to screen the spammers, then that just had to happen.

It seems before anything and as long as it pertains to ICOs now, you will need to get a legit verified document to be able to do anything and that is good enough for the community.

Perhaps facebook's ban on encrypting ads is intended to avoid the loss of some fake ads to users!

Facebook executives have revealed that they will open the ico's ads in the future, but there are requirements for the ads, as well as for the project!

I don’t really know the kind of effect it’s going to have on Bitcoin, but I think it will reduce the progress it’s having, because Facebook is one of the best social media where promoters can be able to reach thousands with just an ordinary post and be able to reach more by placing ads and paying for it to be promoted.

It will have some effect for sure because now everything is on social media and most of the youngsters do follow it. So it was an ideal platform to get the advertisement done and reach to masses. But after the ban it has sent out a wrong signal that it is not being supported.

Facebook has a reason to block ICO ads on Facebook, but I think Facebook will soon allow ads to come back because Facebook itself is also researching and developing its own crypto. There are many large corporations of the world that accept cryptocurrency and research for their own so Facebook will not go out.

so facebook has decided to create their own coin? if its true then why they banned those crypto ads? maybe they did not want to advertise those unkown ico becauss they sees it are their good competitor in the future if ever they can really create their own coin but as of now there were still other social media like twitter and instagram that we can use in order to advertise crypto related ads and there were also big companies and business entreprenuers that currently partners with bitcoin. So overall there is nothing to wory about it.

Lol, it is not an actual news that facebook decided, read the post you quoted.  Anyways, I do agree with the action facebook made with regards to ICO ads.  Lots of fake ICO's are using facebook to bait for unsuspecting victime.  I have seen several ICO which have red flags and should be avoided being advertised in facebook and guess what they are able to pull millions of dollars from it scamming poor souls of their money.  So yes facebook must moderate if cannot ban these ICO ads all together.

For me, it will lessen the income of those bounty hunter that always craving to join on facebook campaign ( fb campaign is one of the easiest way to earn bitcoin by sharing those links- and rank of your bitcointalkorg account is not an issue as well ). But the facebook team explain this well, “This policy is intentionally broad while we work to better detect deceptive and misleading advertising practices,” wrote Rob Leathern ,  one of Facebook’s ad tech directors. Imagine, it sick to see a lot of crypto link on your facebook wall and most of them is a scam.

It was pure overreaction like you said, and anyone that over reacted possibly did not read the full news and then jump to conclusion based on the headline. We have forgotten that what the media is always looking for is the traffic and they will always want to paint the headline worse than what the article or the real happening actually depicts.

It never really had any effect on the market and at the end, Facebook is already trying to screen the ICO adverts as long as it is legal and they can get it verified.

This is not even about Facebook campaign, this is about the adverts that Facebook itself runs. If you feel Facebook campaign should be scrapped so that you can get more for your signature, then you are absolutely asking for too much because there is no campaign that does not make impact one way or the other.

Facebook target is only on scam ICOs and not general, and as long as you can show how legitimate you are as an ICO, you will still have your page running and to me, that is a good step and well thoughtful of them,

Why on earth should anyone even shake because of news like that? It is not like Facebook is against cryptocurrency or the blockchain technology and they are throwing out their hatred, what they are more concerned about is the scam ICOs and with a lot that is going on being an unregulated environment, what do you think they would have done better than what they are already doing. Moreover, it is not like the legitimate ones are not already continuing with the adverts.

It really won't have any effect.  I don't think anyone really looks at the ads that are placed on facebook.  You are far more likely to look at your friends post if he reposts something about a particular ICO imo.

why not? Of course it is, it does have a lot of effect especially to most bounty hunters that depends on their facebook accounts in order to get a higher reward as possible but now they cannot just earned because facebook doesnt allow it anymore.  it does also have an effect to the market because the potential investors will become less if they didnt see these kind of ads in facebook. You know many people are already using facebook globally.

Well!  Its not only on Facebook that ICO displays their ads,  but Facebook is the number one social media and that will make the banning of ICO ads have effect on ICO market. 

The new policy is the advertising of all related to the encryption currency, is not only to crack down on those who try to sell directly to encrypt currency or encrypted tokens, COINS wallet advertising will also be banned, such as other mining, including the ETH, hardware and other related ads will also be prohibited Facebook.

Their policies have a huge impact on consumer behavior.

Facebook is not going to deny itself the huge profits they can get through advertising cryptocurrencies, so something else must be at stake here and the most likely option is they were pressured to do it, it is possible they are being paid to not advertise cryptocurrencies and if that is the case then we can't compete with the money of governments and banks since they basically have all the fiat of the world.

Facebook is a very important channel except for signatures and twitter. The ban on ICOs would greatly affect their ability to reach a hard cap, activities on facebook in my country are very popular, many people have known crypto through it.

this policy not only have a huge impact on consumer behaviour but also on other large social medias.
any affect on bitcoin price because of this policy?

Fellas! There is a lot of misconception going on here because Facebook don't really ban ICO but they ban crypto related ads and I think is because of crypto scam which is happening simultaneously this days.
Mind you, Twitter is also about to do so either as I heard.

Having the same perception which i do suspect theres someone behind on such ban because same as you said FB can really make out money out of those advertisement made by ICO which they do already impose restriction which they do even know that it can really affect their revenue but the decisions had been made already.Be ready on the next ban which would be on Twitter upcoming next.

the effect of facebook news banning crypto ads is the bitcoin price that goes down, because the negative news about crypto keeps the price down. and reportedly not only facebook that prohibits crypto ads but twitter and google will both prohibit crypto ads.

Social media such as facebook and twitter sa a great impact in promoting and spreading the importance and benefits of Bitcoin or any cryptocurrencies. So it is best way to find way to left the ban of bitcoin on this platform soon.

The biggest problem is that ICO's promotional media are becoming more limited. Because we all know, Facebook is a social media with the largest number of users. So naturally if we campaign on Facebook certainly many who see or know about the ICO. If Facebook wants to ban Crypto ads, they should consider it first.

I think on the ICO it wouldn't affect in any way, most likely there will be changes in the Bounty. But in my opinion there is enough other resources for campaign. It possible that Riddle would be more popular in Bounty companies. I'm in the German project Vreo.io  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2898738.msg29810876#msg29810876 And there besides Facebook there are Medium, Twitter, Youtube, Telegram, Blog articles, Signature, Linkedin campaigns

Good team, I read an article about them in ICO Crowd Magazine at page 26-27 https://issuu.com/icocrowd/docs/ico_crowd__6_-_issuu__small_file_si?e=30311388/59784178

Facebook has a great impact on ico of cryptocurrencies market. If Facebook will be banned then a great hamper will be occurred. Advertisement, community of ico will be failed due to bann this media Facebook.

I guess it will reduce the ammount of scam ico that springs up daily

Since when checks Facebook if an advertiser is in good standards and faith? There are meanwhile several countries regulating ICOs and with what right do they deny to let them advertise?

The truth is that Facebook is a system friendly organization and they do not want to support ICOs because these altcoins are a huge competition for the fiat system. They always use illegal things as an excusation like they say bitcoin would be used for illegal activities. But illegal activities already existed prior to crypto currencies.

One of the big impact promotions is through social media. If it is prohibited, it seems to be adversely affecting the development of ICO. But it looks like it will not affect the bitcoin value (because I think bitcoin is the main one) so I do not care about that

Yeah, and though I do not use Facebook, Twitter, or any of the other social media sites (I am a living, breathing hermit and mustn't be seen), I would say I'm...not against this ban.  I'm not ignorant about what FB is, or Twitter, and those sites can easily be clogged up with mindless ICO advertisements, and EVERYONE gets sick of that--except for the person getting paid to spam.  I don't blame these sites in the least for putting the kay-bosh on spammy advertising.

If it strikes the wallet of the ignorant spammer, then ouchiez!!!  Most of these projects are unnecessary at best and complete scams at worst.  There's no real loss to the community here.

Oh please... What impact are you even talking about ? The fact remains that Facebook banning cryptocurrency advert does not bring any issue at all and will never even bring any failure to the ICO space. Do you even have any idea of what you are saying at all ?

Facebook right now can only allow you if you can prove your company or ICO to be legal, so how is that supposed to be a problem but a solution to the whole scam that has been going on in the system ? This is the same path Google and other media platforms are already threading.

I think the effect of banning ico advertisement in facebook is very minimal, although there are lot of audience and potential investor in fb but they are still new in crypto and they will just be a future cancer in crypto currency. There are still few good platform that is good for advertisement like in quora and reddit website so i dont see it will affect at all.

There are going to be many effects out of this policy, the effects for Facebook are very obvious they're going to lose a source of revenue and as a business that is never a good thing also to me that is very suspicious so if I do not trust in Facebook already then this only rises my suspicions of Facebook, and the consequences for icos are very simple as well they will not get as much money simple as that.

It is not like ads are not even running as it is and as long as you can prove the legitimacy, you can still get your ads running. A lot of pages were locked as a result of this and after proving themselves to be a legal company, they were re-opened.

Although, I see no way this is generally going to affect ICOs in general, since it is not like the only medium where such things can be done, but I totally believe the move will surely help to curb out some scam ICOs. Because when the promotional methods are narrowing down then chances of fishing with random people also get narrowed down which may lead to less exposure for non-appropriate ICOs.

There is no big changes will be happen with the stop of ico in facebook but facebook is main social sites and there many people will turns into negative thought of crypto currencies so it will be an bad thing for crypto currencies.

Now the trend of the block chain is getting worse and worse, and no application has started with ico! Not even the project appraisal agency and the third-party audit!

So Facebook's ban on ico advertising is a complex act for investors before it has any authority to regulate ico.

I think Facebook banned ICOs ads is a good sign for the crypto market.
As for as we know Facebook is the largest social network, nowadays any people use facebook like the tool to promote their product and many ICOs are also using Facebook to promote their projects but most of them is bad projects, they are using Facebook to approaching investors and scam. This made aroused suspicion with crypto currency so Facebook banned ICOs ads will help the market is better than.

To my knowledge not just facebook, even twitter and google will do the same as facebook. it will be very difficult for ICOs projects to be reached an investors, the only path ICOs project must use bounty hunter services. and a bounty hunter should be able to promote ICOs projects without using facebook, twitter, and blogging.

Now bounty campaign is must needed to promote the project. If they didn't do it nothing will work on it here on promotion side. May in future we at get more campaign because of this Twitter and Facebook's move.
Bitcoiners will never fall whatever happen in this world. They may block many holes but bitcoin talk will be long lasting and we all will help on promoting project to the real investors.

The social network Facebook has banned all advertising of crypto-currencies and the primary placement of tokens (ICO).
The new rules, according to the official Facebook blog, prohibit advertising of financial products and services, "which are often associated with misleading or deceptive promotion methods."
The ban on advertising crypto and ICO extends to Instagram, as well as the network Audience Network, which places advertisements in third-party applications.
Facebook will identify and remove such advertisements and ask users to report cases of violation of the new rules.

I'm currently working with Vreo.io and their bounty extends to a  large number of resources. I think Facebook banned  willn't greatly affect the outcome, they've got YouTube, Telegram,  Blog articles, Twitter, Medium.com, LinkedIN, Signature, Translation, Proof-read Campaign. 
In addition, I think soon will Bounty for Quora, Steemit, Reddit

Currently, the ban on ICO ads from Facebook has hardly had any impact on the performance of ICO projects, which only partially affected investor sentiment initially. Currently I find that Steemit channel is also receiving quite a lot of support from many projects when being advertised on Steemit social network.

It has a positive effect even people does not like the sound of it. Removing the Ads will make the people search further rather than putting their investment on ICOs that they see the most.

A new coin site refusing to advertising other ICOs? Not too shocking. Facebook and the intelligence agencies want to centralize cryptocurrency. Some banks do too, once they can figure out how to refund thefts.

The only good effect that this is going to have is that there are going to be less people being scammed by suspicious icos and to me that is a very good thing but that is also going to have a bad effect there are many icos that are going to be unable to get enough funding and this means that there are some projects that could become successful but that are never going to be developed.

There are good and bad effects I guess, the good effect is the novice investor will not be easy anymore to invest in ICOs that they see on facebook ads, meaning it will reduce people who will be fooled on ICOs. The bad effect may have an impact on the crypto price that will fall hard because that ban, maybe.

I think that in general, the advertising of ICO projects from the ban on advertising them in the social network Facebook will not suffer. Most investors are already familiar from specialized forms, such as this one, and can continue to choose ICO projects they like for investment. This social network is not designed to advertise ICO projects and the emergence of investors who are just there interested in advertising ICO, most likely, is of an accidental nature. Such a ban will increase the role of forums such as this, so signatories will only benefit from this campaign.

Have you noticed the upsurge in steemit usage? That's the adoption for decentralized platforms calling. In my opinion, the Facebook ban will have more positive effect on cryptocurrency in the long run

To the best of my knowledge it wil help reduce low end scam icos

I think the current ban is due to shark cargoes :) Few days ago the market was pumping capital :) That is a good signal.

No way, Facebook is important media and community in ICO. The news of ico is spread out through Facebook community,  groups,  and pages. If Facebook is banned ico News can't spread the world.

Facebook is a centralised social network, and if you promote your digital encrypted currency later, you don't want other digital cryptocurrencies to advertise on your own, including BTC!

Pave the way for your digital cryptocurrency.

Although Facebook is the number 1 social media now. But you were false when thinking that Facebook is an important media to promote ICOs. Most of good ICOs didn't run Facebook Ads to promote their project because it's usually not effective. Even they don't need to run ads of any media but they can still attractive a lot of people invest in their project if it's good.
Now, Facebook ads is the garbage ads that is including many scam sites, is trying to scam money of investors so i think Facebook ads ban ICOs is a good news for the crypto currency.

There is no problem with marketing on facebook, There are many online sites that can not be turned off, Such as telegram, We all know little more about investing in ico, Those people do, The World Bank can not be successful by trying so much , Finally, give up, This is not a matter

Facebook is not the only social media website out there, however we cannot deny that is the biggest one and that is going to have a great effect especially in the icos that are smaller, a big project is going to be almost unaffected by it because it is always going to be whales willing to invest in it, but a small project that depends on smaller investors is going to have huge problems to get enough funding.

For me it has good and bad effect.
Good because people will not be lead to wrong information about scam ICO. And bad because we all know that facebook is one of mean of communication. Facebook if one of the great place to advertise a product and let the people introduce something. If facebook will banned crypto it will lessen the opportunity to introduce crypto to people.

There will be more effect in the cryptocurrency in that happening because facebook is the social media that actually using by some people to promote their businesses in bitcoin and also some projects uses social media to attract people without it people will get less see about bitcoin.

The Facebook ban just push investors to research more about the ICOs rather than getting lured by the visuals in their advertisements. Facebook actually helped us to make investors use their money wisely now.

I sell advertising for BitTorrent and am very close to people at Google, Facebook and Twitter who have told me that from a promotion standpoint (at least in the US) their lawyers see way too much potential liability at this point taking in advertising.   A factor is that promoting a product or service from a distributed network may be hard to track down should there be an issue.

However as people have stated here all of the aforementioned companies will be incorporating crypto-currencies into their offering.

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Well ICOs are going to continue to be in the system and function as they used to before the ban. The only thing to affect ICOs is the reduction in number of people in their social media. This may result in loss of potential investment as well as the hype which Facebook offers.

I think that companies like facebook and google are afraid of what blockchain platforms can do....
I believe that the world is ready for decentralized networks!!! and thats what the blockchain and crypto systems allow.

We should find alternatives, Im sure that we will find other ways to advertise.

We should all work hard for a world where power is not concentrated in the hands of few! :) :) :)

I think it is high time we develop a better social media platform for cryptocurrency that will serve our interest only and forget about those so called social media gurus who keep frustrating our business. Facebook ban cannot stop cryptocurrency from exploding to all the corners of the earth .Cryptocurrency will survive without Facebook.Facebook cannot stop the power in cryptocurrency.

 ;D The crypto community is strong enough these days and can resist it. It doesn't matter Google, Facebook or anyone else has decided to ban ads related to crypto. The other projects used this opportunity to promote their products. Pay attention to such products as desearch.com or matchico.com They are related to crypto. Besides, there exists a lot more.

There will be huge marketing problem when Facebook launch it own coin then blocked all ICO advertisement on their media, just imagine that a lot of information are flowing their then suddenly they will blocked it, marketing of ICO project will need to think for strategy to cover the loss.

Facebook and google don't really ban crypto related ad but they ban posting an unknown or unverified crypto relate site in other to protect their users due to a lot of crypto scam which happening simultaneously this days.

Yes, I noticed that I do not get blocked in Facebook, and I continue to do the companies and everything is fine, for me there is nothing that has not changed, but just started to weed out strange companies, it's probably even good.

The ban had a negative effect on BTC pricing, as we saw google and twitter also join the ban club later. But we saw the price of BTC going up again, a clear indication that BTC can stand on its own despite the ban from technology giants.

Potential investors who always use facebook as their means for social media or communications will not inform about project development created for ICOs.

Well, I think Facebook are trying to weed out the scam ICO's.

The policy specifically prohibits ads that promote those types of products and services “that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive practices,”

However, aren't Facebook also launching a coin of their own? Perhaps they don't want people to focus on other coins, just their own?

I guess that is one thing we will end up seeing eventually anyway as development keep popping up. However, I really do not see much effect on the ICO market in general even with the ban and it is not like ICOs are not still making some waves. Also, I have been seeing some adverts, so it is not like it was just banned permanently, but it is still allowed for those who can at least verify their authenticity with some license documents to stand a chance and that stands for Google and others as well.

Whatever it is really does not matter as the market is still standing strong and there are so many other measures that can be used anyway and not like they are completely limited to social media adverts. The way some people are saying it though, it is not like some ICO adverts are not still running and all you have to do is to be able to show you are for real and not just some fake project looking out to scam the users.

This was done to clean up the space anyway, so I do not see it as something bad or an attack on the crypto world except for some who just love reading negative meanings to everything.

I recently used Credits banner as my wall paper on Facebook and it was automatically removed the next day and I got a subsequent message that I was posting spam, I do not know how long this ban has being going on but I do not think it is being known by most as Facebook is still a leading PR platforms for advertising start ups and ICOs. But if this ban fully takes effect then it would really affect the ICO advertising trends on social media as Facebook is one of the leading social media platforms.

But a place where you find all kinds of people would also be a place to drop information of any kind for same to go viral. My concern is, I do not know why Facebook would make policy against even shared ref links. Could it be for some good reasons? But their policies statement hasn't state vivid reasons for such policy. At least I am yet to know their reasons.

There are still many ways to call investors' attention. I know that Facebook has a lot of active users but the whole internet does not revolve around it. There are still some sites like btctalk and telegram that ICOs can use. Youtube is also there whenever they want to promote on their own channel.

Will only affect the price sometimes only. But with time everything goes back normal.

How can facebook affect the price? For what reason and application... Facebook need to balance everything that's why they need to banned crypto currencies/marketing for good reason and one of the main reason is to avoid all their customer to invest almost but not all in scam/fraud crypto projects. But you know, there still adds and facebook bounty campaign and it's hard to filter and clean it up for instant interval of time.

Since the Facebook has became the big social media nowadays we are seeing the people investing for giving promotion on Facebook featured ads. Still ICO projects go well without the help of facebook mate. I really understand that new comers will not be coming after the regulation implemented on facebook.
Then still I hope bounties are going well with the facebook promotion and everything.

Facebook have a lot of users...but I´m not sure that it was the best place to announce an ICO. The best way is to have activity in Reddit, Medium,  Twitter, Telegram and specialized forums like this one.  We are started to announce our ICO recently and the most of the messages that we are receiving with questions, sugestions or asking more information about us are from Twitter and Reddit users.

The market is in tough times. Such news is not at all time.

Yes facebook has high scope because now almost everyone is socially active and people are talking good part in using facebook to promote anything including bitcoin, so I think facebook is not going to ban bitcoin they are only banning the fake news posts related to bitcoin, people are spreading fake bad news about bitcoin using social media accounts and if facebook will ban bitcoin then of course people has millions of YouTube channels which will be used for this purpose.

I still believe most activities happens on telegram, even though ads work on targeted users of Facebook. The effect has not been much so far as most now use twitter and CMC ads to promote ICOs.

Yes I also believe that it do not have much effect on the ICOs if they will ban it as people are already sharing their projects on their profiles and on their groups and fan pages on facebook which is playing a vital role for promoting them on facebook. It bring more participants to the ICO when their ICO is promoted via word of mouth on the profiles of people.

Sorry to say but i think that you are wrong, Facebook is the no doubt the best place for ICO advertisement. Facebook has too many users almost from everywhere in the world, therefore it is really contributing too much to advertise different ICOs. I can hope that it will continue introducing ICOs in future.

Yes that's true, although facebook is not always related to cryptocurrency but facebook has a very large number of users. It can be used very well to promote an ICO project. Facebook has many users from various countries around the world and it is a great advantage compared to other social media. So for me when facebook makes a rule about the prohibition of advertising ICO then it will certainly have an impact on the development of cryptocurrency and especially for the development of an ICO.

Yeah you are right. FB may afraid of such scam coins,that's why they banned these ads on their site, and other reason is that they are going to launch their currency, so they will promote their own currency that's why they are not promoting any other cryptocurrency ads on Facebook site I don't think that there is any other reason for banning cryptocurrency ads.

I think little bit affect will be there because Facebook is a big social media site and millions of people use Facebook on daily basis. If the ads continue it would get promotion and people would invest in it and thus the market cap of such ICO will grow higher. I am not interested in ICO because many of them are scam and investment is such coins are very risky.

This topic is old and yet it is observed that even with the ICOS ban on facebook the platform is still widely used by the companies that develop the products. Allied to this we have the campaigns of facebook that drive much more the ICOS than the typical publicity paid.

Maybe ICOs became a life saver for new born business and projects, but I'm not interested in it at all. The most of them are truly scam and others weren't live more than few months. ICOs are clear money making schemes and they should be under hard control.

The effect would be so big because we know how social media can advertise or promote your product. ICO's success greatly depends more on advertising and promoting for publicity and without facebook, ICO's can't expand well of spreading the words of their project. But good thing there is still twitter and other famous social media sites.

Already each got endure active bitcoin and ICO assets. I discharge not craving that it liking dissimulate the crypto market.

Facebook greatly affects ico of digital forms of money advertise. In the event that Facebook will be restricted then an awesome hamper will be happened. Ad, people group of ico will be bombed due to bann this media Facebook.