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Did you hear about it?

In a post published Tuesday, the firm suggested that it will certainly change its existing monetary product restriction listing in June this year, blacklisting ad web content “including yet not limited to initial coin offerings (ICO), cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency purses, as well as cryptocurrency trading suggestions.”

“Such advertisements will not be allowed to serve,” the blog checks out. In addition, the restriction will relate to Google’s both proprietary as well as associated ad systems.

“We do not have a crystal ball to know what the future expects the market to cry out. But we have seen enough harm for consumers in this area, so we want to approach it with particular caution, “- said on Google.

The bitcoin price was largely unchanged after Google’s announcement.

source:http://icowatchers.co/google-will-ban-ico-and-crypto-advertisements/ (http://icowatchers.co/google-will-ban-ico-and-crypto-advertisements/)

Google advertisements are very useful to promote bitcoin, alternative coins and exchangers, this helps the particular ICO to promote their coin to be successful. If this is true its a breakdown to many ICO that is using google to advertise and promote, I hope youtube ads will not be same as this. I think government is accountable for this happenings since government do have control over this and against cryptocurrencies somehow.

I think bitcoin is going to go full in the black market. After these news the bitcoin went down a bit.

I think for Google it will be very strange to make a ban on advertising crypto currency even I can not imagine what could happen they will lose a lot of money

I saw this news 2 days ago, my first reaction was to weep for cryptocurrency. Because, when facebook made their own announcement, it actually caused some stir but not as much as this one. Google is at the heart of internet right now, so they have a lot of influence on the internet.

However, i still believe that cryptocurrency can only be stopped by the internet itself. And a lot people have come to say that this is practically impossible.

I think more and more real companies will do their own ICO with usecases. So an ICO advertisement will not looks like now, it will change that they promote the company behind it, but with a small teaser that they will do an ICO. So in this case actually it could bring value in the market, that there are more valuable ICOs in the future. But of course it's way harder to promote the ICO itself and bring it to the people.
May I be right with this thoughts?

I think in this issue ads are being advertised about the ico and because it simply comes out when you open the sites.

Well advertisements actually help ICOs and cryptocurrency to accumulate investors. We may not feel the short-term impact of it when this totally takes place, but I am sure it will surely harm cryptocurrency. However, as we know a lot of people are into cryptocurrency and I am sure people and developers will find a way on how to market cryptocurrency.

Another big FUD, this is why bitcoin's price is keep going down.
Just wait it till the news come in and say that google not doing that, the price will rebound

These all FUD can't stop. It's looks like someone trying to shutdown all Cryptocurrency. G20 summit, Facebook ban, and now Goodle ads. Such an arranged scheme.

are you sure the news is true? news like this that will make bitcoin price is down and if its true please give the link.

We hope that it wont going to happen.Because the fastest way to give and to inform people about bitcoin are by the use of social media sites.Due to people usual usage of internet, Social media sites are the best way to show ads.

I am little sceptical about this announcement. I havent seen any such posts coming out of Google and Icowatchers blog also did not cite any link to their blog. So the source remains unknown and un-verifiable.

But if this happens, it will not be a good news for the community. A large portion of the Cryptocurrency marketing is done through google ads. If it suddenly gets stopped, it will harm the market in a big way. Google should have stopped ponzi advertising instead of Cryptocurrency.

Seems like big money makers around the world not liking bitcoin
this step show frustrations of big money guns

In fact, Google and facebook was the same, nothing special, now encrypted digital currency in other media report has been a lot of, can obtain more information, also need not generalize the basic, and ICO has his own channel, such as telegram or discord. These are the ICO natural harbor.
Therefore, Google's decision has no effect on the encrypted digital currency represented by BTC. He is the company's behavior, not the government's supervision measures!

I have also read the news. yesterday facebook ban ICO ads, now google. a very unfortunate situation. but I hope it is just a discourse and never happened. because if that happens, it can make bounty campaign performance difficult.

I agree with you, it's completely weird thing to do. It seems to me Google gonna getting a great loss

There's a lot of scams going on in crypto. I'm not sure if Google will really bad crypto ads (https://coincodex.com/article/1386/following-facebook-google-is-set-to-ban-crypto-and-ico-ads-in-june/). The same thing happened with Facebook and I'm still seeing crypto ads.

But how? there is no legal reason for google to stop such advertisements, most ones are not illegal so they have the right to advertise through google. But google is strange company  >:(

it will only create a good opportunity for the new platforms working on decentralized ads which I have seen already quite few. Google just proving how centralized entities simply don't work

Yahoo network I think isn't banning it, its however not used by people today. There are several platform to advertise ICO and exchange. Forums like digitalpoint I think allows advertising ICO and exchanges, this is a potential forum as webmasters are flocking in forums like that. Webmasters are also into bitcoin and crypto investments.

I personally very sad to hear the news because google very Take effect on the internet world if until google stop advertising then everyone will find difficulty information from the internet while google can be said as the heart of the internet ...
thank you

Google and Facebook are now not Independent companies anymore

they depends on regional investors and their interests , they block and allow things which allowed by main Investors and countries

There's a lot of ways of how to spread crypto so even google don't accept it still we can spread this all over the world actually this is easy to spread here in my country and base on my real experience here i will try this if i already know this crypto,i think google is good to spread this but we can see a lot of ads in different ways like twitter,slack and etc.

in terms of protection of users of Google facilities against Scam acts that often occur on the ICO project, this decision can be said a very wise decision, because in order to protect the Google users from financial crime company google must lose the source of income that can be obtained from this cryptocurrency sector. But, of course, they have taken into account everything, and they are paying more attention to all the possibilities that can take advantage of Google as a means to succeed any fraud to the users.

Google's actions today are exactly the types of risks i have been talking about on these forums in the last few months. Until such time as regulation is in place that protects consumers from the scams, the fraud, the hacks and the overall wild west nature that is the crypto environment right now, the price is capped at current levels. Just too much risk going on.

As for me, if Google prohibits bitcoin, then we will have less of an aulditorium in order to buy bitcoin and it will always be at a low price and as an asset it will no longer be usable.

I'm sure if google prohibits the advertisement of bitcoin and other crypto currencies then that will be problem only video advertising using youtube and blogs using blogger, the rest we can still advertise bitcoin and other crypto currencies in blog service providers and other video service providers

I don't think its not interpreted in that way, although bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been popular without using google or something like that, it will also have a huge effect to some people when it's proved right. Even if we say its no big deal to us, but just about other people if they knew it would happen, what would be their reaction and I am quiet sure it will have huge impact to the market.

I think it will be difficult to implement, like it was in case of Facebook. It is difficult to control all ads.

What has bitcoin to do with ICO and all the scams advertising in google?
For me is the best news ever!

No adblock could help me get rid of the ads in gmail and every time I was bumping into ads I knew were lame ICO that will never make it and will just run with the funds.


You're going to be amazed how easy it is !!!


Read the news and try to understand it!!!
Nobody is prohibiting bitcoin or banning bitcoin!

They are no longer accepting ads for ICO and cryptos.
Nobody was advertising bitcoin on google  ;D

That would be definitely a drawback for the booing crypto market.First facebook took such a stand and now the search engine giant Google.We could understand that users should be protected from scam projects,but banning totally all ads related to crypto exchanges,crypto wallets could not be understandable.Telegram channels are also mostly used for promoting crypto projects.If they too move in this direction,then crypto industry would be left isolated.This news seems to be true.

     https://www.coindesk.com/google-to-ban-cryptocurrency-ico-ads-from-june/

Again. From speculation section to bitcoin discussion. A newbie are posting such news, over and over again. Is it obviously used for a group interest in bitcoin price decrease. They’re not satisfied for a 8000$ price, they want more. A lower price for them means more bitcoin and opportunity to have big profit as bitcoin price in the future rocketed.

Now Elon Musk wants to create global access to the Internet through his satellites. Maybe he'll create an alternative to global corporations like Google. I have no confidence in global corporations. They cooperate with the government to have preferences. In our struggle for their rights, they will be on the side of the government and will create problems for us.

No , it's not. Google ban anything that has negative impact and based on the feedbacks there too many fake ico, people get scammed etc. so it's not a subjective policy but an objective one. This is an exaggerated news , nothing would affected by this random headline. So , just ignore it.

This is true, I also saw this news, it is not the best for development of the Crypto-currency, and the prices in the market have decreased even more. But I think this will not be a big obstacle for the restoration of the market and the further development of the Crypto-currency, as the community is growing every day.

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I think, google does not prohibit information or news about crypto. it's just that, eliminating for advertising services that tend to potentially fraud like a scam. this is what google does. so, I think there will be no problem, it's like facebook and other social media.

It can not be and even if it is so it is likely that it will not be for long because bitcoin will be able to redeem the advertisement for promotion

I am not saying this is a good thing, but a lot of these ICOs are scams and I think Google picked up on that. They are doing this

to protect themselves. Facebook has also made changes to their advertising policies, because people exploited this and scams were

advertised on their platform. The unfortunate side of this is that legal ICOs will suffer from this.  >:( ... The SEC are also looking at

ICOs, so you might see some strict regulations soon.  ::)

I think why Google does not allow crypto ads is very strange, but a lot of crypto ads on youtube, google search page, I think this news is not true, if indeed this news is true then the supply of google will be greatly reduced

Are cryptocurrencies a threat to google?

Are we going to see decentralized search engines, in which the goal is not revenue, like google, but the goal is to provide the user with the most accurate information?

I understand how this is really concerning to the crypto world, for it shows the ICOs, Cryptos, and Exchangers like something "underground" to the public. But, as I've read, the battle seems to be mostly against ICOs, for much of them was just scam. This is by the hand with US politics of persecution of fraudulent ICOs.
Well, let's analyze the panorama:  
Google's statement says:  it will change its existing financial product restriction list in June this year, blacklisting ad content including but not limited to initial coin offerings (ICO), cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency trading advice (...) The restriction will apply both to Google's proprietary and affiliated advertisement platforms.
That's, initially, means:
- They are not going to accept Youtube videos related to the cryptoworld in any sense.
- They will not publish anymore adds about those topics.
- They said nothing about their search engine.

Ok, so they are not going to allow all that stuff in their financial products. But, what are they? What that's mean? Well, financial products can be anything related to finances, including banks, exchanges of "common money", etc. The last year google deleted more than 350.000  adds and canceled more than 7.000 Adworks accounts due to their infractions, related all of "making fast money" and this kind of pishing and stuff.
Now, they vaguely are talking about how they are going to do the same with cryptos. So, in "doing the same" they mean they are going to pursue all the "crypto financial products"? I don't think so. As the company has told, they say they are going to pursue the "speculative and no regulated" ones.
We all have been seeing how from the last months crypto coins are being regulated in so many countries. So, do you really think google is going to forbid publicity per equal to all crypto?

Now, if they demonetized YouTube videos and blogs dedicated to crypto, and forbid all the publicity about them it is going  to be serious, of course.
But, in my opinion, it is not going to happen. I think this is just about ICOs and spamming.
Do not forget one thing: Google makes millions in publicity. Millions. They, for sure, are not interesting on losing all the crypto world publicity is giving to them. Besides, when a statement of such an importance is launched in such vague terms, I never believe it.
Changes are going to happen, of course. But I don't believe they are going to be as severe as we all are afraid off today...

I think google almost has to do what the sec tells it to do about not advertising for misleading financial products. This is just a general extension of the rapid trend of ICOs being SEC regulated as securities issued by companies.

It is kind of strange and annoying when I see a google add for a project that I am almost entirely sure is a pyramid scheme. Some new coin that all it has to advertise is the fact it has masternodes will pop up on my screen about once a week. I do think this needs to stop. It isn't fair to people to advertise as if you were a legitimate company when you don't even have a working product yet and the risks of investing aren't clear to people who don't understand the crypto market.

No , the real google statement is not that. You're analyzing the article.
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/7648803?hl=en&ref_topic=29265



Youtube videos are not paid ads. That qualifies as user generated content.
Nor will the search result s be affected in any way.




It's not millions.

Those are billions, or 2/3 or the current value of all the bitcoins out there.
People that are deeply involved in crypto usually forget the real size of the global economy and the fact that crypts are still a tiny fraction of that.

If they have gone to the trouble of saying this in an official statement they will follow it to the end.
Probably they have played with the numbers long enough to realize that it is not going to affect them that much and the backslash from consumers that get tricked into scummy ICOs would be worse.

Google is far better than Facebook when it comes to such things. But my friend, I think Google will never do this or at least it will leave some ads unblocked by its own free will. Business is not as simple as it appears and these giant tech companies will always promote technology. Bitcoin is a part of technology, a very beautiful invention rather. But even if we consider the worst case scenario, bitcoin will survive even if google makes such a foolish move.

in fact, this is not a foolish act, but an act that can at least reduce the often fraudulent acts of initial coin offering (ICO). Sure, we don't know clearly and definitely what google's purpose really is, but for Google, the users are a top priority that they have to think about. Not only does it provide features that can help with day-to-day work, but google should also protect it against any actions that could harm the users of the Google service itself so that the users in a prolonged stay comfortable using google.

This has been confirmed, Google has been suspended so the advertising of the encrypted money and the advertising of ico, which is definitely not good for the cryptocurrency.

This is a known thing for me that they are going to ban and I think here we have more clear about cryptourrency ads ban at Google platform that they will not take descion at sudden , they are going to do with few some time spend and after that they will do Thier work .
But here a worst thing that I see is that people are feeling something negative regarding this descion of Google that is forced by FBI , in actual they are going to trade for the bitcoin trading and ICO only and another will still run .
So here we should not take it in negative ways and use this thing in positive way that not much scam will happen in future and we will get guinine things in this field .
So don't Panic with this news and don't sell coins that you hold , hold them for the perfect profit in soon coming time .

Guys, even if we can admit that it happens, why don't you think about the other search systems? Finally, our Forum is the best source for getting all the information concerning Bitcoins, altcoins and ICOs.

Well, this forum also suggest google search if you want to search for articles.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search


So.... ironic...isn't it?