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Bitcoin continues to be pounded by negative news. Unconfirmed reports about Twitter following the footsteps of Facebook and Google in banning cryptocurrency ads pushed Bitcoin’s price below $8,000 on March 18.

Most likely, such prohibitions occur in the framework of the attack on bitcoins and other crypto currency, which has been going on for about three months. It is unlikely that such prohibitions occur one after another spontaneously and accidentally. However, facebook and google explain their position by combating fraud in these social networks. How does it actually show time.

the answer is obvious! a large amount of cryptocurrency advertising clogs the Internet and prevents ordinary users from easy and easy use of the Internet + google and facebook are closely connected with the authorities, and this directly affects their decisions about the cryptocurrency!

This was I supposed to say on where such prohibitions do come after one another where theres a particular company prohibits cryptocurrency the other one follows up and as you said in just a matter of 3 months we have already heard out big institutions having decisions regarding to this which isn't really a good thing on my part.It might reduce fraud but limiting out exposure isn't really good at all.
Clogs the internet and accessibility? Seriously mate?I don't think this is a valid reason.I do rather believe that government do always have an involvement with such decisions been made.

Not clear why facebook and google prohibit the news about cryptocurrensy, any negative news about cryptocurrncy usually bitcoin prices directly plummeted, what is indeed like this criptocurrency trip.

They say it's because many scam schemes are promoted in Crypto-Currency world and that Crypto-Currency is out of control (no guarantees for investors, decentralized world). Truly, they are giants in the modern world, they have occult interests, occult partnerships and follow occult agendas. When a decentralized system appears, it threats their mightiness, as their power comes from the centralization, so they will do their best to centralize/regulate Crypto-Currency attending their agenda's interests or forbid it.

The reason is because their companies were being used by the advantage takers who are scammers. And this is why they are trying to ban crypto paid ads, they are not literally banning the whole concept of cryptocurrency but they want to ban the paid crypto ads because of these scams. Twitter ban is just a rumor and there's no update yet about it.

They aren't banning it. You can still talk about it. You can't ADVERTISE unless you are a registered trader. This is a necessary step to thwart scammers.

Sorta how this forum had to implement merit if you think about it. Forums like Bitcointalk, Twitter and Facebook need to figure out ways to control the scammers and confusion.

Yeah, this is kind of misleading news that cause people on panic. Well, all I can see in crypto ads is just a pure ICO and most of them are just a scam so better that thing to be shut off. One day, I know those big companies will finally use this kind of technology and who knows they might create their own token so for me don't panic about this news.

It is not Facebook or Google ban news which forced the Bitcoin price to fall that much.
But it was MtGox trustee who sold over 30k Btc and 30k Bch, and you can add the panic sale of crypto traders along with Mtgox trustee.

Just forget about Fb & Google and move on... Just don't give much importance to this type of things.
They are from the centralized world and crypto is the decentralized thing and it is really doesn't matches.

Remember, when China banned crypto? Does crypto vanished from the world after China ban? But the price went to Saturn as far as I remember.

I think you can not compare market price reductions with other social media bans, because I think the advertising ban cryptocurrencies in social media is because so many bitcoin communities are bombarding crypto ads, and the account managers are a good destination for the security of their users.

But China is kind of a special case since people know they're good at banning soon-to-be-successful things  ;D

Just to be clear, China did not fully banned crypto/bitcoin AFAIK

Yeah China didn't fully banned crypto, there's no clear news about the said ban and AFAIK it's only the ICO's.

These two news made the market to crumble. There are many other reasons that we need to consider but these are the few ones.

Yes it is also not clear to me, maybe this is also why bitcoin price are dropping. There is no negative news that spreading with social media and there is no explanation that I've heard from Facebook and Google, ICO's can't advertise well because of this maybe that is why the bitcoin price is continue dropping. Hopefully they have to clear their side.

If we look at the bright side, facebook and google banning cryptocurrency might bring better impression on cryptocurrencies, at least first impression. Since facebook and google have a lot of users, cryptocurrency's reputation have been jeopardized by spammers and scammers.

cryptocurrency was growing so faster. even giant also fear it.

I think even useful ad like crypto trading exchanges that are also using them to advertise will be banned as well. I've seen many exchanges that are advertise through google and even in youtube.

This already gave bad impression for cryptocurrencies so there's no bright side that way. Maybe there are some but this isn't that side.

There's no clear explanation about banning crypto ads on any social media, they're just afraid of harming their users in fraud, is not that what they mean? If that is the only reason they can at least be considered again where crypto spreads in many social media and other access especially users are also very fond of crypto. if a lot of scams are right, at least have anticipation in that.

What exchanges are you referring to? I honestly haven't seen ANY legitimate looking service advertising through either Google or Youtube's platform. In most cases when I was just searching for blockchain or Bitmixer through Google, ads clearly being phishing sites popped up. Seriously, who needs these ads anyway? If you search on Google for Bitcoin exchanges, you'll see now actual Bitcoin exchanges pop up, and not phishing sites mimicking Coinbase or whatever. It's a welcome change in my opinion, and I wish they did it months ago already.

Popular Google search results popping up on top of the page now;

Bitcoin exchange; GDAX.com
Bitcoin wallet; a legit local online wallet service, but after that, in more mainstream terms, it's blockchain.info
Bitcoin investment; articles pop up instead of whatever shady investment platform promising you 10% weekly returns

In current times ICO ads are still being displayed, but that will change within a few months. I am at least happy that Google has implemented some changes, especially when it comes to blatant phishing sites. Their algorithm detects and gets rid of phishing sites much sooner, that's something I have noticed.

yes they are going to banning the BTC add on both google and fb because " The social media giant said it would prohibit ads for financial products and services "that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices." but apart from this every one is still investing in bitcoin and even me also one small step cant control the regulation of btc so i agree with you.. forget about the fb and google and work on it.

Too many SCAMMER now on social media .. Then it why Facebook and Google block ads about Cryptocurrency.. It's like fresh breeze for the SCAMMER for stolen money for user from Facebook and Google and then they cant do that now in 2 big company like facebook and google

Fear not, China is not banning cryptocurrency. because many of the people in china are still trading with crypto that is why the government is planning to take back the restrictions from the Bitcoin.

They scared as they will be losing huge amount of advertising money and run out of business

I'm not sure about your first sentence and can't comment on it, but China is still progressing well and China is a strong competitor for other Nations.
Regarding the China ban, as far I knew that they banned ICO at first and then there was a news some months ago that they will ban trading or fully ban crypto... Maybe I've misunderstood somewhere or I heard a false news.


The market is confused currently due to the news, fuds etc and the result we all can see. But I hope the market will be stable again soon.


No one will be able to stop bitcoin in my opinion. Bitcoin will progress at its own pace. But the way everything is moving forward it seems to me that regulation will be the ultimate result.


Ban will not stop any individuals from any country to stop trading. Once I wrote somewhere that the peoples of those countries who banned crypto are also trading and still involved in crypto one way or other.

In my opinion, guys !
These news from fb, google, China are strained to dip crypto market down. I've read that fb founders have this kind of currency.
I am pretty sure that they will have unbanned ads, before starting euphoria.

Since the idea came out that news can affect the price of bitcoin then there are some whales that are also taking advantage of this thing. And who knows if there are people behind these ban from facebook, google and now with snap chat? Who will be next? Whether the market will stable again or not still there will be FUDs that will come again. And what's the definition of stable market?

tensions in early 2018 due to a terrible fall in prices. FUD and many more factors that influence it, now some hope has come. some big companies that have entered able to push up the price of bitcoin. classic, when some people have a great worry about the breaking of bitcoin, I like having big hopes and always buy bitcoin and keep it falling down prices

I am sure that there is a concrete explanation of such decision from some head manager of Google and Facebook on the net. They are banning only commercial of ICO and crypto projects, but as I heard the ban will not touch every crypto commercial, the own crypto projects of Google and Facebook are going to be advertised. That is simply agreement between this two giants, as the main reason I see protection from scammy projects, cause of in the case of lost investment people are going to judge exactly Google and FB, just cause of they advertised such ICO or project.

I think it not an mistakes from Google or bitcoin it is due to some fake adds from fake company that's why they decided to ban not bitcoin only bitcoin advertisement so the investors would not be worry for that.

Google and facebook are not allow fake adds it is not the mistake from bitcoin or google so we cannot make a judgement by this bitcoin is not supported by google so we can use and invest bitcoin.

Maybe you are right, Fake companies are a big problem to many people, They steal a lot of money from investors, so due to this fake campaign, Google, Facebook and maybe twitter, they no longer advertise bitcoin on their sites.

Facebook and Google are not banning any cryptocurrencies. They are banning the ICO ads. A high persentage of ICOs are fake, so certainly facebook was getting report about those fake ICOs and it is obvious that they will try to keep this type of ads out from their users.

People are the real problem here. If they didn't blatantly fall for obvious scams, or even willingly invest in them just hoping they can profit before they implode, these scam ads wouldn't even exist. These scam ads exist because there is demand for them, and that's quite a pathetic development if you think about it. Common sense and less greed would make sure these services and ICO's wouldn't pop up like mushrooms after a rainy day. Other than that, people can still post on Facebook, Google, Twitter about ICO's, investment schemes, etc. No ads will result in less visibility for scams, but that's really it -- the groups and communities promoting scams are very large still....

Simply, they are not benefiting from the success of digital currencies (Profit financier) and also because of the pressure of some governments or countries on them , due to the existence of those cryptocurrencies and their development over time led to some financial losses, especially for banks ( FIAT) ,and they cannot control the transactions currencies, so they are always trying to destroy Bitcoin and other  in many ways (like, google banning crypto, ...).

Furthermore, despite all these bad attempts  which led to a crisis in the market, but I do not think they will be able to break the digital currencies because they are well protected.

There are several versions about the reasons why they do that: oficially they make it to protect users from scam, unoficially - they make it under the pressure of FBI, and others. In fact, I think we're not going to find out the real reason at the present moment...

They really are not banning cryptocurrency. Those social network sites are only banning ICOs for now. And they are doing so because of the scams associated with ICOs. It really is not directly about bitcoin but about scamming ICO projects.

Yes they think that they can ban this new and well successful goods in market but it is just a dream now and no one can ban bitcoin at all, today bitcoin is famous enough and people use it to generate money people are begging hungry to get bitcoin, so again bitcoin is getting powerful and those country that tried to ban bitcoin are going to regret for banning and well developed and bright future currency that can make future of the country like stars in the sky, china was saying they will ban bitcoin but people of chins still use most of bitcoin in the world.

Total ban can really be implemented but it doesnt really mean that they can completely kill bitcoin or cryptocurrency transactions since we do know we can still able to make transactions which is far away on the awareness of the government.They can ban it all they want but it is not completely the thing that can stop this very good tech.Earning money is just an another add up or benefits but if we do solely look for its main purpose then we cant deny that this do really have the potential.

There are many fakes ICO circulating and most of the people don't have any awareness about those project. They are banning because of they find something wrong with the ICO.

A lot of scammers flooding around the internet and social media. Its very annoying where you can see a lot of advertisement about cryptocurrency, specially when youre already aware and can decipher which one is legit and which one is fake. Youre right about not banning the whole concept of crypto ads, they are just limiting the use of it to avoid being abused and being used as a tool to take advantage.

I think these two social service sites have taken great strides to make it completely clean of the various scams.
Of course, because they are at the top of which is a chance for the fraudsters to carry out their mission.

I've seen those exchanges that are based in my country.

I can now smell why google started to ban cryptocurrency ads.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/google-is-said-to-work-on-its-own-blockchain-related-technology

The thing is, these two company does not want their names to be tainted or dragged by scam advertisement.  They are aware that not all cryptocurrency ICO are legit and most of them are just trying to prey on unsuspecting victims.  Aside from that they are already cases where ICO advertisement on google and facebook scammed their client.  So I guess this is just an action so that their name will remain clean and not to be used by these scam ICO's and company.

I think there might have been some accusations of Google and fb regarding cryptocurrencies and ICO promotions, like people can fall for scams, but that's just a cause for these prohibitions, and the real reason may be some agreements between the govs and these companies, maybe they were threatened, who knows.

They are not exactly banning them they just remodeling their rules when using add on their sites.

These sites regulates cryptocurrencies and ICO promotion because some of them are not acting in good faith. They only wanted to protect the public because it may lead to financial risk. Some of those are not legit and are scam. And people that are seeing or reading those advertisements might think that those are good investment, but its not.

the news to ban cryptocurency to their platform was because of, according to them mislead their customer, i just can't imagine how it mislead or hurt their user... anyways, life must go on to the crypto users, the ban it only for the ads...  i think this is just temporary, google and facebook and other conpanies gets largely  their revenue from the payment of the ads. cutting ads  will surely loss income to their company.

Any negative news about cryptocurrencies, usually the price of bitcoin falls.

I think Facebook, Google, has banned the encryption of money, probably because they want to issue their own encrypted currency, rather than advertise it for other passwords. Because Facebook, Google has too many users, it's a very large population.

i also heard that facebook is planning to create their own coin but i dont know if that rumor is legit or only a speculation. however in terms of google , i dont think they are banning crypto related ads because right now i can still  see some bitcoin ads on youtube and other websites related to google as well. so i guess those news about google banning crypto ads are just a hoax. they only spreading it because they wanted people to worry or worst panic , so that they can take advantage to it.

It's a bit sad about it, but anyway because of the many scams that circulate in social media, it can be a weak point of crypto to be judged negatively. And also it could be related to a government that really forbids it and still thoughts that it's very risky.
But anyway.. everything will be fine I guess, the price will return at altitude, there are many people still supports on crypto till makes the market more crowded and looks greenish.

This is not an attack on bitcoin and the annoying part is that we are the ones who panic and convert it to an attack. How do you think most people have become victims of phishing websites ? It has always been through adverts such as this.

All these cryptocurrency scams, do you think they do not make use of adverts ? As long as these guys have explained themselves that they cannot guarantee the legitimacy of the companies or ICOs advertising, they cannot go ahead. Simple as ABC, so why are we making something out of nothing ?

Facebook might be banning cryptocurrency but as I can see Google didn't do that. Artbyte just showed up on Google Adsense banner and there are so many ICOs which displayed on youtube. But i really like if they finally ban crypto you know what, there are so many criminals used their service to promote their phishing site let's say a popular site like blockchain.info.

2017 is the year of ICO's outbreak, and many ICO have come out. I am not saying that ICO is not good, but many ICO are fraudulent.

There have been too many scams for more than a year, and most have been promoted through Facebook and Google, so Facebook and Google have banned the ads.

Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, in an effort to prevent people from advertising what the company is calling “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” Too many reports about scam and dirty works from crypto currency, that's why facebook and google team avoid this kind of problem. They don't want to use to be a instrument of misleading promotion through the wrong way.

Bitcoin continues to be pounded by negative news and you added other One OP, Please if you don't have any good news don't make any thread regarding and pertaining to fud news because it will not help new investors to trust crypto, you are just making them go away.
If Crypto Will be banned by any other social media's maybe they have done it few months or years ago, but that is only a fud. advertising crypto is a big impact on any social medias specifically facebook. -1 merit if i could do it.

I am joining with this point dude. But these newbies does not know how to take the fake news has been shared by the fucking media. They should learn that how handle the time when there is dump in the market bro.
Next to that social media banned query has been created a multiple thread in various section in this forum.
I do not know whether they are able to find the same thread in this section or not.

These prohibitions are ridiculous. While pornography, fraudulent sites, illegal betting sites, and a lot of nonsense are taking place in advertisements, the prohibition of kryptonia is ridiculous to me.

They are not banning cryptocurrency, that is a wrong title. They forbid ads in terms of fraud protection that are now being made into the crypto.
This title could create some FUD if someone misinterprets it, so think about what you are posting.

I think they did not banning cryptocurrency. They were banning ads of cryptocurreny. Because there are so many cybercrime occur using cryptocurrency. Such as money laundryng and fraud. That is why many social media banned bitcoin ads.. Really sad to heard that.

In my opinion All multi billion companies including social media like Facebook,YouTube,Google are afraid of Bitcoin decentralized fast spreading network and they think that if they don't stop it at the point then they will lose and Bitcoin holders will become billionaires.

I would like to think its because of the laws of where these companies are physically located ( the usa)
and banning some of these crypto advertisements is a way to avoid any legal pressings which they could be affected by should one of the citizens invest in some ico that is advertised through their services and turns out to be a ponzi.

Interesting that there's lots of talk an attack vector via ads, but little to none about the information contained in your profiles, searches and dealing. There must be masses and masses of people who haven't told the taxman and others anything yet have blurbed all over Facebook about throwing money at crypto.

If someone comes a knocking Facebook or google can locate your every single mention of it. If you've managed to keep your known bank accounts out of it, you might have failed with your online chatter.  

https://i.imgur.com/tTrqxXg.jpg

the prohibition of bitcoin ads on social networks is because so many scams in social networks and they are just securing the accounts of its users, I think this is very good, because users on social networking them too much in advertising bitcoin.

I think this is due to some big scam project are getting in the crypto world and polluting it and making great losses to their users and company's like Facebook and google respect their users and cannot show any content which comes under a scam or can manipulate the money. This is the main reason behind the ban on the crypto advertising on Facebook.

So that's the good ones, only left legit ico's project in the ecosystem, let nature make its own selection. Look at the good side of this banning ads, that the coin's already in the market will continue to grow, while we no longer need to worry about the scam of new project's.

Well no one can reduce the use of bitcoin but the impostors only but as much as I can see bitcoin will keep on increasing and it will never taste an end, everyone knows the profit and the potential of bitcoin which they can never neglect, advertisement of bitcoin is now being done at very high level, every second TV channel is advertising bitcoin, and all social media campaigns are helping bitcoin to grow and to increase in price, so I think they did not ban bitcoin but they are just deleting the fake and discouraging post of the bitcoin user which makes them think like this.

It is confirmed that Twitter is banning Crypto related ad :(

Have you ever met anyone who's clicked on a Twitter ad? I haven't. And that's why they'll continue to burn vast amounts of money until they die.

And the real problems with crypto on Twitter are with the content, not the ads.

from articles I've read, the causes of facebook and google banning cryptocurrency ads is because there are a handful of people who commit fraud. and possibly the cause of bitcoin prices going down is because facebook and google prohibit cryprocurrency ads.

I think it's a big conspiracy. They are the whales - they launch the news to cause FUD to be able to buy more coin at a good price. Once successfully purchased, they will announce that the forward information is confusing or limited to something. And I also have another possibility that they want to develop their own blockchain, to promote it stronger, more popular, more competitive, they will eliminate, restrict other crypto

All is just personal recognition. Have a nice day

Huh! Come on don't make everything so controversial. It's not about stopping anyone to become billionaire but it's just a precautionary measure by them so that no one get harmed through these platforms. They want to protect their users from being fooled through fake ico and stuff. This is the only possible thing they can do to keep the trust of their platforms. This is how I think about it after reading the stance of the social media company about the whole issue.

Bitcoin Scammer Website Misleading people by google and facebook ads. People investing in many website and losing money.

no explanation from the facebook and google, maybe this is just a game for bitcoin prices to be low, because the negative news can cause the decline in bitcoin prices. but I've read in one article that the reason facebook and google banned crypto ads because there are some parties who try to misuse for fraud.

This article right here might be an eye opener:

CME is not in the market to make money but to keep Bitcoin down as long as possible:

https://medium.com/@super.crypto1/4th-dimension-bitcoin-manipulation-cartel-can-it-be-burnt-no-way-c53de65c166a

maybe because they want money.  Maybe they are planning to ask payment first before allowing crypto advertisement in their platform.

I think maybe Facebook and GuGe think that there are some ICO which is a scam that will harm other people's interests, so advertising is prohibited.

It is as if China's stationary ICO transaction is a truth, lack of control, and some criminals are just to cheat the money.

These social media giants should be more mature enough since there are lots of scam advertisements in their sites which not even related to crypto although there are some of it that are crypto related. I believe they are only against any investment schemes and that includes ICOs.

it depends on the person if they wanted to get scammed. you know majority of people are still wise enough and they know whether that thing is a scam or not.

 You can only get scammed if you are a lazy person that dont read and do a quick research in regards to your investments. so overall i guess theres nothing to worry about it and these companies and countries shoudnt have ban ico or other crypto related ads in the first place because they arent the ones who can get affected with this issue.

All are fake news, they are trying to take down bitcoin price.

the fear of more criminal acts, The risk in question is inflation and prone to be used for money laundering and terrorism financing

If you ask me I will still say that it’s the same reason they believe that Bitcoin is scam and is being used for bad things online. But I’m not really sure of what I just said now if that’s the reason why. Btw, the price seems to be one the positive side now since it has risen back to around $8000+ and is still moving. Even if Facebook and Twitter bans the ads for Bitcoin, I don’t think it will have any impact at all.

Maybe the correct question is, are they really banning crypto ads? Because I'm still seeing a lot of ads in my Facebook account alone. Well they have their reasons for banning those crypto ads, to really weed out those scam ICO, but it is effective though? There's still a lot of money pouring to the ICO every minute that I don't think that this social media has contributed to the downfall to say of scam ICO. And just observed that you can still see a lot of ads in your account as well, so I don't know if they really filtered out or they just say they are going to ban it but don't do nothing, or maybe they are pressured by the government to put a ban around ICO.

Let's not get it wrong people, i think what facebook is trying to do is this, making sure people are not scam all in the name TGE for a certain project. but recentlly there are quite a good number of ICO been advertise using facebook.

Google has been sued in Russia after the company announced restrictions on the use of encrypted currency advertising. Entrepreneur vladimir o 'rehov has asked Russia's Google to pay 2 billion rubles. He claims the ban deprives him of investing in cryptocurrency projects and finding investors to fund his business plans.

He complained that he had lost potential investors "overnight" due to the impending ban. Restrictions on encrypted currency advertising deprive him of useful information about other companies' sales of tokens. This will lead to "promising investments" that miss out on opportunities and will affect his future earnings. He also believes the ban is illegal and violates his right to access information.

Although its not clear why facebook and google banned cryptocurrency ads, but its too obvious that the internet was being flooded with tons of cryptocurrency ads. And the most annoying part of it was, most of them are phishing website and other form scam techniques to take advantage to newbies.

These social media networks didn't mention why they are banning Cryptocurrency ads but the reason behind is, there are many fake ICO's launching and raising the money without any proper intention about what they are going to develop. Mostly innocent people are losing money with this ICO and maybe people are complaining about those scams ICO's to Facebook and Twitter.

Social media giants have been banning cryptocurrencies related advertisements because some users have been encountering high promising return ads like initial coin offerings which are scam or fraud. This impact the price which is currently on its low at around $6847.11 US Dollar as of this writing.

Facebook, has been banning virtual currency advertising including bitcoin since January 2018. Because Google itself is banning it related to malicious or "bad ads" advertising data, which is a series of false, controversial and cyber-crime ads, contained in the Google search engine, to the video network

So much scamming ads about cryptocurrencies is the reason of ban cryptocurrencies in the Facebook and Google, they said that. But it has not working.

They have banned only a sponsored pages on the facebook. So we do not need to worry about this at all still it is possible to promote the project with the share, post and likes. Facebook judges all the ICOs are meant to scam the investor. That is reason we are seeing the ban.
Whatever Google do all people use the google for searching the crypto results everyday. True fact about the Google's announcement is they wanna a add the new blockchain on their own platform with the centralized medium. I am not sure still how they gonna do it.

False news. Facebook and Google are not banned in cryptocurrency market trading and ico. People spread a false news in this forum. Facebook and Google are two major sources of bitcoin trading platform. So I can't believe it.

May be right you are sir but this number is very rare and maximum users use it in right way. Some illegal people or persons use in criminal activities, money laundering and international smagllin.

It's a practical move by Google and Facebook. I think they don't want their platform to be used for scams or fraud which is usually circulating on web. It's a good thing for the crypto consumers for them to be secured and not be fooled by scam advertisement. But still there is a minimal consequences that can affect crypto because of that act.

A handful of ICO scams have branded the entire encryption market. Because of this, baidu, weibo, Facebook, Google, and even the possible Russian search engine Yandex's crackdown on ICO advertising are seen as a way to distinguish between good and bad.

Facebook, the ban on Google is not the end, at least not this year. Phantom or fake ICO projects are theoretically obsolete.

I heard about the stoppage of Facebook and Google's promotion work, I  talk to some experts about it, They are talking about, These are not good at the market for some new coins, People are facing problems by investing I'm listening as much...

thanks...

What most people like the OP usually do not do is to read the contents and once they see the headlines, they start panicking and asking some questions that may want you to puke. First and foremost, relating to his topic, how can Facebook or Google ban cryptocurrency ? What has cryptocurrency even gotten to do with adverts ?

Secondly, if the OP and some who have been commenting annoyingly above us actually read the content, they would not say this. It is apparent the way scam has evaded the advert space and being used to take advantage of investors, and it is not like the advert is a total ban as long as you can prove your legitimacy, then you are fine, and I wonder where some people get theirs from.

Cryptocurrencies promote the idea of trustless system and the tech giants are doing their part

Giant companies just haven't yet developed unified standards on how to evaluate cryptocurrency projects, including ICOs and everything related. Once the legal side of cryptocurrencies get regulated properly, everything will be fine again. Unlike gambling, hyips and such, cryptocurrencies in general are not illegal by nature, so it is just necessary to wait until there appear quality and legal standards for crypto projects, including ICOs, exchanges and such.

You think it is about the easy use of the internet ? Does that even sound realistic in your ears ? These guys have been making a whole lot of money from these adverts and if the advert is a problem for you as an internet user, they really do not care and you can decide to use an ad blocker for all they care.

The main essence is just a result of the scam that the ad space is being used for and as long as that is in play, they would prefer to keep investors and internet users safe from scammers.

I don't think twitter/ facebook bans are effecting the market. the bans aren't in place and won't be until June i think. to say this is dropping the market is naive. the market is being manipulated by whales and their positions on futures exchanges. plain and simple. This is why we are yo-yo'ing and smaller gains in the market when there is no real negative news

I don't think social media like facebook and twitter forbid bitcoin because I can still see few ICO advertisement and even in google. However, if it is true that those website banned this crypto maybe because bitcoin becomes notorious due to scammers. Here in our country there are few people who have been scam in crypto and because of this bad people the image of bitcoin is becoming worst.

Well they ban crypto ads because of the one reason and it's about the virus that they will get and lot of ads consist an spam message and some are just a scam. They wanted to reduce it by the help of banning and not all are ban only the legit.

Social media platforms have recently banned advertising for cryptocurrencies and ICOs, but that stance is contradictory to the thoughts of their directors.

In January, the social network giant Facebook outlawed cryptocurrency related advertising in an effort to protect users from various ICO scams, fraudulent token sales, Ponzi schemes and the likes.

It has set a precedent that is now being followed by other platforms and service - but this disparaging move is at odds with the sentiments of the heads of these businesses.

The people responsible for the creation of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been singing praises for cryptocurrencies and their underlying Blockchain technology.

It creates a bit of a juxtaposition, as the companies they are responsible have enforced sanctions that potentially stifle the adoption and development of Blockchain.

In order to unpack this disconnect, let’s take a look at what the likes of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey think about the developing technology.

Facebook and Instagram
At the beginning of 2018, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg made some positive comments about cryptocurrencies in a post on Facebook. He focused on the potential benefits they have for businesses like Facebook, as well as the power they hand back to people.

He honed in on an issue that is becoming increasingly talked about – centralization versus decentralization. As CNBC reported, Facebook was in the spotlight for a number of negative issues mainly related to its ad-services and their capabilities.

"There are important counter-trends to this, like encryption and cryptocurrency, that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services."

No more than two weeks later, Facebook announced that it would prohibit cryptocurrency related advertising on the platform, which was met with varying reactions from the wider cryptocurrency community.

Fast forward three months and Facebook was embroiled in one of the biggest scandals since its inception. In essence, the platform supplied personal data from over 50 mln users to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Zuckerberg took to Facebook to admit the company had made ‘mistakes’ while outlining what had led to Cambridge Analytica access to data from Facebook users. He has since taken out adverts in British newspapers to make a public apology, while Facebook has been hit with a swathe of lawsuits.

In an interview with CNN last week, Zuckerberg even suggested that Facebook could benefit from regulation - an issue that is hanging heavily over cryptocurrencies and ICOs this year:

“I’m actually not sure we shouldn’t be regulated. In general, technology is an increasingly important trend in the world and I actually think the question should be ‘what is the right regulation rather than ‘yes or no, should it be regulated.”

“On the basic side, there are things like ads transparency regulation that I would love to see. If you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on TV and in print, it's just not clear why there should be less on the internet, you should have the same level of transparency required.”

Meanwhile one of the primary attributes of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is the ability to encrypt data giving anonymity and privacy to users.

Facebook’s move to ban cryptocurrency related advertising also applied to partner platforms Instagram and its advertising platform Audience Network.

Google, Facebook and Twitter banned cryptocurrency ads mustn't be main reason which made Bitcoin's price goes down $8,000. Many people think that Google, Facebook and Twitter banned cryptocurrency but in fact they only banned "cryptocurrency ads". Why? As far as we saw all good cryptocurrencies don't need to run ads in Google, Facebook or twitter or very little. Scam ICOs, phishing sites need to run ads to attractive investors. I think Google, Facebook or twitter ban cryptocurrency ads is better for the crypto market.

The fact that all of this is happening basically at the same time is very suspicious, it is very clear that there is an attempt to get the price of bitcoin as low as possible, the price of bitcoin has brought a lot of attention by the media and that is something that the government does not want they do not want the people to think that there is an alternative to their system and so they're suppressing the price of bitcoin.

Firstly, they did not ban cryptocurrency, they banned cryptocurrency adverts and you guys should always know how to put your topic or headline first before misleading people. They cannot ban cryptocurrency apparently, so I do not know what the whole fuss is all about. They all stated it that it is as a result of the whole scam going on in the whole cryptocurrency ICO space which the adverts are being used to deceive a lot of investors, and I do not see anything bad in what they have done.

Very much possible. Government and central banks are opening all the possible ways to dump bitcoin prices I am not sure that they will succeed with their attempts but as of now bitcoin prices are facing lots of pressures due to these kind of things.

At first,they are not banning cryptocurrency.they bann only ICO ads.reason of lots of fake ICO Add in social media.many people think social media bann cryptocurrency,but its not true.also government cannot consider bitcoin as a alternative currency.

I think these Ads attack on Crypto.

Google announced that it will prohibit advertising of crypto currency on all its platforms. The company said that it is updating its advertising policy related to financial services. According to Google, the content they want to ban includes ICO, wallets and advice on trading.
In its news the company made it clear that, although the Crypto currency can be an adequate asset for consumers in the future, now they see evidence that the market has hurt many people. As a result, in order to protect its users, it officially began to prohibit advertising related to the crypto-currency industry as a whole. In a statement, Scott Spencer, director of advertising at Google, told CNBC:
"We do not have a crystal ball to know what the future is for crypto currencies, but we have seen how some crypto currencies have been brought to consumers. This is the very area to which you should promote with extreme caution. "

The banking system puts pressure on cryptocurrencies. I have no doubt that they were pressured from above.

In some cases it's well justified to blame banks for their actions, but there is no point into putting them in every picture when completely opposite industries force through changes. In this case the legal responsibilities of displaying these ads, and the pressure from multinationals buying ad space on social media sites did it. If banks are really out to make things impossible for people, then they will prevent people from buying crypto through debit cards, which should function as indicator. If banks decide for you what you can spend your money on, you should immediately ditch that bank. I already did so once.

As long as you can get verified and show to them you are legitimate, then you can still run an advert, this is the reason some of them are still on. It is just that a lot of new investors are always fund of picking the headline just as the type OP dropped with Facebook and Google banning cryptocurrency. How on earth will they ban cryptocurrency ? This is a good thing for ICO investors I must say, which at least gives them a rest of mind that any advert they are seeing has been fully verified not to be a scam.

Who said that Google banned Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? 👀😳 That’s not true, Google wouldn’t ban cryptocurrency. I have seen some people saying that they did, but that’s a lie, they never banned cryptocurrencies. The only platform I know that did ban cryptocurrency ads was Facebook. As for Twitter, I don’t think they did such a thing. Facebook is the only platform that did. By the way, Google is a little different from all these ones, so I don’t think they would do the same thing as others.

I just wish most bitcoin investors would neglect the negative news and talk about positive news only. It's more glamorous to ignore chastisement and criticisms sometimes; it usually makes critics wonder how strong you can be. Let's encourage each other to post more good news in bearish times. I think that will be counterproductive.

I do not even know why the OP would have to put the topic like that. These guys are not banning cryptocurrency; they are banning adverts related to cryptocurrency as long as they cannot show the legitimacy of the company and the ICO.

Some ICOs are still running on this platform and it is a way to just try as much as possible to curb out some scam ICOs for the investor’s sake, so I wonder why some people are trying to pick FUD from nothing rather than putting some efforts to find the actual happening. Not a big deal for many people to get alternate platform when we are not comfort in existing along with recent facebook's user's private data stealing problem.

I think their is no relation between this two news of twitter and facebook banning cryptocurrency ads and bitcoin price going down. Social media have stopped ads due to lot of scams are running due to that lot of users have got scammed but if your project is genuine then they are supporting it. Mostly the new ICO ads are banned in social media. Bitcoin price going down is a different story.

They are trying to stall the revolution. They fear that blockchain solutions will make their business model obsolete

What I've read some post, Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, in an effort to prevent people from advertising what the company is calling “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.”

That means no advertiser — even those that operate legal, legitimate businesses — will be able to promote things like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings — ICOs for short — or binary options, according to a Facebook blog post.

Nope. Instead, I'm sure they would love to continue allowing crypto services to advertise on their platform, but the legal aspect and pressure from external sources made them do this.

There is some sort of a global social media cleaning going on due to this. It has not really to do with crypto itself. YouTubers suffer from it as well, where they consider it to be the ad-pocalypse.

Everything people do and say on social media has to be according to certain shitty new policies, which is ridiculous. At some point people will only be able to talk about my little pony and Zack and Cody. :-X

Probably on process, because to prohibit ads that have been done by many twitter account and facebook account is very much and need a process to do it. I have friends and he likes joining with bounty campaign with twitter. A few days ago his twitter account was not accessed due to security reasons from twitter. It might be a process to clean up cryptocurrency ads slowly.

We are free to wish that but it's not going to happen. Most of the investors especially the first timers can't do this.

This will be the solution to all the bad news that we are getting through, encouraging others to tell good news instead of the bad ones.

With events like this are very affecting investors because they will feel worried about the incident, and with the development of crypto many who do not like and oppose it, actually what they want. and besides lately a lot of bad news or bad news that makes investors afraid.

I think the suspension of advertising is temporary. I think that advertising will be restored when they adopt strict laws on the conduct of ICO so that there are no scammers in ICO. ;D

Personal opinion:
I think they are trying to hold back the development of BTC or Crypto in general.

It's no secret that huge percentage of ICOs turn out to be plain scam. Very similar situation to what it was with IPOs in the beginning. Even I myself, being quite anarchistic, agree that ICOs do need some regulations to stop this muddy wave of scammers. Once things settle down I'm sure advertising ban will be lifted.

The Chinese ban has no practical meaning because the Chinese are trading on many other exchanges, such as bittrex, binance, and the purchasing power is still very strong.

I do not even know why the OP would have to put the topic like that. These guys are not banning cryptocurrency; they are banning adverts related to cryptocurrency as long as they cannot show the legitimacy of the company and the ICO. Some ICOs are still running on this platform, and it is a way to just try as much as possible to curb out some scam ICOs for the investor’s sake, so I wonder why some people are trying to pick FUD from nothing.

They are banning cryptocurrencies and ICOs because they are against the whole purpose of blockchain- DECENTRALIZED networks!!! ::) ::)

And now we can add Microsoft's Search Engine "Bing" on the list that has banned crypto ads. As for the reasons, they wanted to stop scammers using their platform to spread their illegal activities.

However, I still thinks that its everyone job to really search and do our homework and not just to invest our money on a certain ICO and no amount of banning will stop them from doing so. It might lessen but not totally eradicate and I'm sure that scammers will continue to do their dirty work despite this bans from social media giants.

Of course, one can assume that certain norms will be created to create an ico company that will complicate the work of scammers. But How will this all happen? Where is the guarantee that scammers will not find a way to circumvent these restrictions.

Haha ignore corporates move against crypto currencies. They are mostly deal with the international money transfer method and USD. They will not allow the blockchain platform to survive in the market. Check why they are creating the own blockchain by Google and why Facebook creating its own crypto currency. I am sure they will come with the centralized mode of operation.
Everyone here in the forum knows centralized platform cryptos are not good one to invest at all. In that case how do you consider this these site ban on cryptos are the legit move to help the people.

I think one of the reason there is no agreements between  them.

The reports on banning of cryptocurrency on some media outlet is just a rumors deliberately by some people to spread widely to destruct the image of crypto in the world wide market.

false news, facebook and google are two majors source of spreading cryptocurrency news.... so i can't think that facebook and google banned cryptocurrency.

Maybe it is because they are planning to have their own cryptocurrencies, and that is only the coin that they will promote and not those coins that they didn't own, but I think it is not totally banned. As of now, I still see some different crypto currencies in Facebook and multiple people still promoting some altcoins and also bitcoin.

I can still see pop ads about ico's. So I guess not everything is banned.

This is because there are so many scam nowadays which is sometimes related to cryptocurrency. that's why they decided to ban some crypto advertisements.

My opinion is that they fear that the blockchain projects will compete with them.  ::) The crypto community is strong enough these days and can resist them very well. Pay attention to desearch.com It's a decentralized search engine which is related to crypto mostly. Also, matchico.com is a place where ICOs meet investors. There are others as well. For example, BitClave is developing a decentralized monetized search engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOgmyEDsgw To summarize all this, everything is fine!  ;)

They didn't ban crypto currencies they are just banning the ICOs because most of the ICOs are turning into scam which might ruin their reputation and now microsoft also banned them on their bing search engine but we need to clear that it is ICO not Crypto currencies.

Facebook, google are banning or avoiding cryptocurrency because of some fake news about cryptocurrency. Those fake news gives negative publicity that is why some people doesn't invest to it which gives cryptocurrency drops its value.

No idea what actually the reason for them both to banned bitcoin, but as I know that facebook has mad their own coins, so probably they're idea for banning bitcoin is just to promote their own coin tho. Well, is good if they can prove that their coins was good also.

It could happen, Facebook may plan to launch its own type of coin. because not to be outdone by bitcoin that can grow so fast its users, so it can be very valuable even has become familiar to big investors.

It's already planned mate then you can check the Google team move about blockchain they have already started planning to make their own private blockchain. I think we do not need to discuss about them more.
There is no use to talk then they would not gonna help the bitcoins. Crypto currency is really helpful to world economy but government and corporates do not help btc else it will grow more mate.

With the name of cryptocurrency more and more scams were getting promoted through Facebook and other social media sites. This will surely degrade their business as well the trust from the users. To avoid such issues, they have come up with plans if banning ads that promote scams and not the legitimate business.

I think they don’t wanted to make a promotion without any assurance and this is the main reason for the stop of crypto currencies from google.

They want to reduce the marketing circulation of ico for scam activities, in fact this is certainly a good thing, but in reality not all ico is a scam, so the steps taken certainly harm crypto unilaterally.

But 90% of them are and it has been tricking people into believing it is real because so many people get blinded by the fact that it can make someone instantly rich if they invest into cryptocurrencies. ICOs are pretty much fucked up and being used by scammers to scam people with. Actually it has now became the new ponzi scheme based from what I've been seeing.

Google and Facebook banned Bitcoin and ICO-related ads in an attempt to prevent cryptocurrency programs from cheating investors.

I think they have their official announcement why do they ban crypto ads. But my opinion is just they wish to prevent possible cheating of new investors who join an ICOs project after seeing its commercial on web.

prevent from kind of scamming Things and if one day they got linked to such cyber crimes , they can say We have nothing to do with that. safety Belt first!  8)

They call it unregulated financial solution. We call it decentralization. Whether they ban it or not, cryptocurrency is taking over.

If some one not create a New Type of Bitcoin or Something same also;)

I think it will take a little time and these two giants will positively look at the crypto currency. I'm sure that the same Facebook will release its own crypto currency or a platform based on the blockhain.

Sec regulations made facebook and google to ban cryptocurrency ads and ico ads it wont affect the price and amount of new investors coming into market many are aware of market conditions

There are lots of fraud in the world. It is wonderful to regulate them.I speculate that the reason for regulating cryptocurrency comes from fear.Probably they do not want to disturb growth areas.
What is afraid is that the nation and the power person say that they supported them.As they are not regulated.

I do not see them really want it but have to do it, I can still see cryptocurrency ads on google and Facebook for now ( it might will get terminated soon) .  even facebook says it's desperate to develop blockchain technology. Facebook took this prohibition step to prevent irresponsible people from spreading their financial products and services whose credibility is questionable, too many fraudulent cases started from social media ads such as Facebook , thats why they ban t to protect users. they also say "That We do not have a crystal ball to know where the future will go with cryptocurrency, but we've seen enough potential consumer or potential consumer hazards so that it is an area we want to approach very carefully. "

Facebook can I use to conduct ICO campaigns.
and all is well, do not be a problem. it's a small issue and just part of one's plan to spread panic and negative issues.
keep thinking positive.

Banning of cryptocurrency in facebook and google is not true and is pure speculation of some people trying to destruct the images of bitcoin who want to buy bitcoin in very low price.

I think because many are using cryptocurency as a mask to commit fraud. Previously anonymous developers have launched this "Ponzicoin" fraud as it impacts cryptocurruncey that continues to grow and is often associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.

The reason is because their companies were being used by the advantage takers who are scammers. And this is why they are trying to ban crypto paid ads, they are not literally banning the whole concept of cryptocurrency but they want to ban the paid ICO ads because of these scams.
Twitter ban is just a rumor and there's no update yet about it.One day, I know those big companies will finally use this kind of technology and who knows they might create their own token so for me don't panic about this news.

These prohibitions are single. Some ICO are advertising, some are blocked on facebook ads and google adwords. Everywhere are double standarts

that's why we have to intelligently choose the trusted news. and do not panic easily with some negative issues.
they do anything to cheat and the victims are people who are new to crypto.

Perhaps they are afraid that many criminals will use them as tools for fraud or maybe in the future they will release their own crypto

These giants are banning cryptos due to widespread scams and forgeries. These would certainly harm their business reputation as well as the populace. Banning cryptocurrency ads is just a mere effort to protect people from fraudulent token sales, ICOs, ponzi schemes and all sorts of manipulated and devious ways to reap the population of their hard earned cash. They just don't want to be a part of it.

Partially it's for that, but I think its because government regulations, if they promote scams and ponzi schemes they will be responsible for that. As I see they ban didn't pass well, many people still advertise crypto on this two social networks.
I believe they will not be able to ban crypto advertising entirely. They are shutting down crypto accounts, but 3 new appears instantly, this crypto fever can't be stopped. We will see what will happen on the future and how will they deal with this problem, the thing is they need to work under the laws of the country where they are registered, their decisions will depends mostly from that.

The total ban has not yet happened. Most likely this is an information attack on bitcoin

Facebook and google are in the view that cryptocurrency is a scam and think by banning the advertisements, they will protect their users but they have not realised that the cryptocurrency industry has the potentials to help these users.

I don't want to believe ve its 'cause they perceived it as scam but rather they see it as competition as Facebook will soon face off

I think,the one reason is,cryptocurrencies mostly the bitcoin,are very popular in many countries around the world. Banning of these advertisements,will avoid the possible clogging on their network operations.

they didn't banned the cryptocurrency totally, and i am 100 percent sure that time will come!
they will produce their own tokens or coins.
many people will support this im pretty sure.

It is difficult to distinguish between fraudulent advertisements and non-fraudulent ads.
So I wonder if they announced a ban.

Crypto currency is an unregulated platform and is prone to frauds. Understandably some platforms wouldn't like it to be advertised on them.

They do simply don't want to harm people financially since bitcoin could definitely do such right. Also, may be they do have the same reason why the government bans crypto on their society. Else is that they are creating new virtual money on their own beside crypto and they don't want to brainwash their future user that is why they ban it as early as possible they could. Banning it is a really tough decision since advertising could help the market grow up once more.

They are sharks are tossing bad news to gom BTC. :)

There are many theories why .My of course that they want to capture this market and control it.Or the government is pressing very hard, because you know the crypt will humiliate the dollar and lower it as no one ever .But there are many of us,and we are not so easy to break, we will find a way out always !

My account on facebook is banned. 3500 followers. Always did everything according to the rules. For me, this social network has disappeared.

Hi, I have two versions of what's happening:
1- All the same, if you think about the idea of ​​all social networks is a free communication. But hunters for rewards in the crypto world using the requirements of the bounty campaigns are very much abused (as much as the number of reposts) and this very litter the main threads in the social networks.
2 Which seems more plausible to me is the global world secret of the financial world. These financial kings see that with the departure of finance in the crypto currency they began to lose their profits and declared a cold war against bitcoin and the rest of the tokens.

I am not agree that ever they will announce a ban for bitcoin as according to me they are the real supporters of bitcoin so how can we say that facebook of google will forbid bitcoin, I can still see some adds on google about bitcoin and most of people who are getting good information about bitcoin only because they are exploring google to get knowledge and google is providing them all.

That tells simply that it is not like adverts are banned totally, but as long as you have an ICO, you can tender documents to show its legitimacy, then you are good to go and this is the reason why you see some adverts of cryptocurrency still displaying. The good thing is that, at least, if you see an advert now, you sure would still be relaxed that it is verified and you can at least be compelled to want to dig further on the project if it is worth investing or not which for me, is a good thing.

I suspect that Google imposed a ban on plans to create its own crypto currency in the near future. Thus trying to get rid of competition!

Not like they are afraid, a lot of scammers were already using the ad space for fraudulent activities with so many fake ICOs being pushed out there to potential investors, some phishing being done via the advert space and so many more. All these things were already becoming a crazy thing generally for the whole space, and this development actually brought some little bit of sanity into the space as far as I am concerned, except for people who just want to see the negative sides to everything.

I see a couple of reasons to ban advertising from Google and Facebook - ICO scams all arround. Big money wants to maintain status quo. Big companies live side by side with great banks that do not want crypto to have success.

This is just another example how people are totaly misinterpreting information. They see and hear what they want to see, taking into account only what they want and not what is realy the fact.
Facebook and other social media are not banning crypto and they don't have nothing against it but they are trying to protect the users from so many fraudulent advertising, moving the responsibility out of them. And cryptocurrencies are not any kind of competition to social media, don't know how some have gotten that conclusion.
It would be realy great if people would finaly start to use the brain.

I heard that facebook is planning to create thier own crypto coin , this is also the reason why they ban crypto related ads. Maybe google do also want to follow the facebook's path , thats why google is also banning other crypto ads.

these two big companies only wants their coin to become popular , in which case they do not allow any adverts aside from their own coins.

Not only facebook and google but i do also heard that youtube is also banning crypto ads . Although i dont think is real because i still see some crypto related ads on it.

As far as I know Facebook and google are not into banning cryptocurrency. They are just trying to avoid scams, fraud advertisement which I think is good because this will prevent people from being scam. Nowadays, scammers use social media to scam people because it is more easy to approach people that way. That is why many people are being scam with a fraud advertisement. This is I think is a good move for facebook and google.

This is not a ban on cryptocurrency in general but only a ban on advertising of ICO projects. This problem has been raised so many times but many people believe in this from a misunderstanding of the situation.

Bounty is safe indeed, but lending is not so safe. It's not that hard to get scammed there if you are not careful. Also even if you had altcoins as collateral it could just lose value in an instant. So you can't say those are safe

Because they don't want to be used by those people who are using bitcoin to scam other people and using facebook or some social media's. They using it as advantage that they can promote more in using social media that's why facebook and google ban crypto ads not the whole thing.

I do not think that they are afraid of the competition of companies and products developed on blockchain technology. They banned the advertising of ICO because there is a lot of scam among the companies and this market is not regulated.

Yes they are thinking as you wrote as they found that think to adopt to stop these scammers. But there is an option if they do not want to be against crypto then they have to make some rules for the crypto related ads and they have to approve these ads manually so that they can remove/reject those ads which are from scammers and not from any authentic people.

If they do like that then it is possible that we get the advertisements of crypto again on there. But I do not think that they will have a well disciplinary system like that which caused them to stop the complete industry.
This action of them are showing all of those industries as numb industries which cannot handle to find the scam and legit ads to their platform.

until now much information circulated that google and facebook make a ban because the goal is to avoid fraud mode and many people cheat using the road through social media because as we know that almost 99% of people use social media in business or in life always use social media as a means of life and I think this is the right way to avoid facebook and google more carefully again in advertising bitcoin.

Well I have never hear any of this news so as well as i think it is all fake news and bitcoin will never be ban at any cost, I can see still people are using their social media accounts for bitcoin advertisement and I can see a lot of google websites where we can get all positive informative stuff related to bitcoin so such fake news come and go no need to listen or trust anyone.

I do not know much about the reason they ban cryptocurrency ads in their media, but what I hear the reason they ban crypto ads is to prevent scammers from using their media to deceive many people in the crypto world, and they are forced to do the author
I think so :-\

The policy of Facebook prohibits ads that promote those types of products and services “that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive practices". In their opinion, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum, and initial coin offerings have all hit the mainstream, which has promptly resulted in a number of scams. However, there are many scams in other industries which are not and will never be banned

From what I know they're banning all about cryptocurrency news because it violates their terms
They don't want their media become spread something 'illegal' in some country that banned crypto

Facebook, Google and I think Twitter also are not completely banning cryptocurrency, they have decided to stop the ads of ICO which may be harmful for the audience and personally you also can't blame these companies as due to the recent attraction of people towards Bitcoin many people have started fake ICO's in order to grab and run with people's money. Recently, many ads shown by these platform about ICO failed at market very badly due to which a majority of the investors suffered. The idea of banning ads is taken into practice to safe there costumers from falling into fake Ponzi schemes.

I think the low price of bitcoin is not due to the ban on advertising in Google or Facebook. It seems to me that the price is not allowed up whales.

I don't like that the cryptocurrency is banned. I believe that the more people know about the coin the more expensive it is.

Facebook and Google are very progressive, tech and modern companies. They are leaders in their kind of business. I may suppose that they have a mercantile interest. What am I about? I mean that this companies have lost the time and opportunity to be  leaders in crypto industry or to earn well enough on crypto and now they prevent evolving crypto industry on their field. I think that it is greediness.

Well there is no doubt that google and facebook are famous and the most used websites that millions of people are kept on using it daily basis some are making business and some are making advertisements, I have been watching a lot of information people takes from google and facebook about bitcoin so it think they will keep on doing it in future as well, bitcoin gives profit to google and facebook as well so they are not gonna ban it ever.

Facebook and google are in the view that cryptocurrency is a scam and think by banning the advertisements, they will protect their users but they have not realised that the cryptocurrency industry has the potentials to help these users.

I do not believe about this thread, i have been into facebook and google since it started and since crypto currency became famous, i am checking crypto related ffoups in facebook and searching about crypto informations in google and i continue to epxerience advertisement of project (crypto currency)  such as ICO's.  And even bitcoin with different aspects.

It's still not clear how they are regulating cryptocurrencies, but I don't think they're banning it. I still see cryptocurrency and ICO ads in google and youtube. With facebook, however, it seems there is really a huge drop in crypto-related ads running in the site now.

Advertisers who promote electronic money will try to find new entrants to the market. And for new consumers, this is very risky when their knowledge is not available.

i think no news effecting on bitcoins grow or downs.  because there was many good news, but bitcoin continued to go down.
when big someones decide to punp or dump - than it happens, no news factors. well, sometimes they tie bitcoin movements to news, right.

Knowledge is wisdom not only for bitcoin or crypto currency but in all fields of life, we are now in modern era so I think we need to advertises digital currency for the sake of our secure future, no website is banning bitcoin those are all fake news that market manipulators are spreading, we should not listen to bad news, there is positive response from google, Facebook and all social sites so no kind of websites are banning bitcoin.

Because of the growth or reduction without the control of Crypto:)

the reason may be that because of those kinds of news so many people have lost their money to the scammers or due to bad market conditions and they may blame facebook or google for the loss and they have decided to cut it down.

I think they want to launch their own digital currency that’s why they banned cryptocurrency on their sites, but I think they are doing wrong if they want to create their own ICO. If they really think that cryptocurrency is a scam then it is right to ban it on their sites otherwise it is not understandable why they banned cryptocurrency ads on their sites.

I guess the reason for banning cryptocurrency on Facebook and Google is to avoid Scams, Frauds amd Fake advertisement. They do this to secure their sites and to secure their users from being victimized by scammers. As we can see crypto ads are not fully banned from those sites, because I can still see promotional ads from different ICOs and cryptocurrency.

Actually that's true, facebook has been flooded by negative and fake news and many scammers nowadays are using Facebook and other social media sites to scam people. Maybe that's the reason why they want to ban bitcoin and other cryptocurrency on their site, to stop or to lessen those scammers.

I am sure that Google and Facebook will simply lose millions of revenues from advertising cryptocurrency projects. Progress cannot be stopped. Now many States are thinking about the introduction of their own cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Well, there is much bad news than good news on bitcoin and that what lead them to make that decision. Scams here and there from ICO's and online investments is really not a good impression for crypto but banning it is also much better than seeing another person hating the crypto because of scams.

Because Crypto does not show stability. It increases the non-code and decreases ultra-fast.

I strongly believe that this speculation will not happen as both sites are on 100% support in cryptocurrency market and i think this is another speculation trying to destruct the image of bitcoin.

The reason for this is that many people reporting in social media's that they've been scammed by ICO's through advertising in this social media platforms. That's why google and facebook provide some restrictions in their platforms to stop this ponzi scheme. This may affect the price of crypto's in short term but it will be beneficial in the long term.

Their could be another side of it is that they know its potential but banning means they will introduce their own coin which will be useful and work only in their application or some features if you want to take that you will have t pay through their coin. So this will hep them to make the money from their own coin.

So true. Crypto will help them to get more money

Crypto is not yet a real asset. Need time to crypto proof

With the amount of scam projects, using the cryptocurrency platform, these social networks are distancing themselves as far as possible.
Although most of the rumors are unconfirmed, it's effect on the value is obvious.

Crypto is not real asset but it brings real value. That's all i care

In all countries, they become lawful. Let's hope that fraudulent projects will be less. Then the crypto currency will be evaluated.

There are too many scam projects advertised on facebook and google. There will be a lot of people cheated by scam projects and of course, Facebook and Google will never let their users suffer by projects scam

Because Crypto is not really stable. It is still in the process of demonstrating belief.

I think they are afraid of BTC that's why they are banning and they want people to get away from crypto currency. Because they are no powerful currency like crypto currency. Other thing is that they would of view that crypto currency is not regularised by govt. agencies, although they are not following all other govt. rules. They only follow those rule which are in their benefit.

well this thread seems to have outdated answers, but as on 26 June 2018, ad ban on facebook has been lifted https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/26/facebook-reverses-its-crypto-ad-ban/

also the ban hasn't served much greater good to public neither the ads had any effect on the quality of projects so the news is junk keeping in mind bitcoin's market price & its underlying tech & philosophy.

Mostly because it's so many ICOs and not many of them will actually succeed,  plus it's all full of scam projects that never even intended to develop a project after they take the ICO money. So facebook, google... don't want to be those that guided people to those who would take their money. Sure it's unfair for good projects but their time will come anyway.

Because the crypto market has no stability and it is limited to legal each country

I don’t know about Google why they banned cryptocurrency ads, but I have heard that Facebook is going to launch their own crypto in the near future and that’s why they have banned other cryptocurrency ads on its site. I think it is not good because Facebook is the biggest social media site and the internet user will use Google for searching. They can promote crypto effectively.

Facebook has revised the full ban on advertising cryptocurrency. pre-approved advertisers will be able to post content about crypto-currencies and related topics, except ICO.

Today is a good news. Facebook has accepted the crypto AD. First of all it takes time to accept it. Please see

From what I read online they were all banning cryptocurrencies because the rate of scams that are being done with cryptocurrencies were increasing everyday, so they decided to stop it. They said that they might start to allow it again on their platforms but we don’t know when it will be. But whether they ban Bitcoin from hedge these social platforms or not, I don’t see where or how it will affect us.

Even then it is not good to be ban, they should not be afraid of small and miner issues on market, it is normal happening for us, facebook and google are basic sites that most of people use for exploring bitcoin, it is best place where most of information people use to get about crypto investment, I think even now google and facebook at playing vital role in bitcoin promotion.

remember when china banned crypto? does crypto vanished from the world after China ban?
Yeah this is kind of misleading news that cause people on panic.
And  news Facebook to Launch its Own Cryptocurrency with Massive ICO

It happened 'cuz too many ICO project scam, also I think they are also creating their own crypto.
So they just ban in advance to have time to Dev their project. U will see they will make you surprise later on

I'm not worried about facebook, even I can still follow the facebook campaign.
do not panic and stay calm. keep reading the news correctly

Yesterday announced that Facebook opened the door for crypto advertising. It's an incredibly good news in at the long term downtrend market like this.

I would like to think this way because there are some laws of every country and every state, may be the laws of some places where these sites are located and banning some advertisements is only to avoid legal pressing, they are not banning the entire crypto currency but only scamming website are being ban buy then but it could be just a news as there is no fine explanation has been released from facebook or google till now so just be positive.

Indeed, simply they banned bitcoin because of increasing rate of scam and we know that these sites like facebook and google are just protecting themselves for these malicious doing. We cannot blame them because I think this is right thing to do so we should accept the truth. Moreover, I don't think that is has a direct impact on the fluctuation of bitcoin, maybe on demand perhaps.

Crypto is now not recognized by many countries as an invisible asset. When all legal related to crypto is complete, the ban will be removed.

So you got a point here but I think it is not possible right now, how can google and other sites like facebook can create their own currency is it that easy? I think there is something else like some kindda laws of their sponsors’ and physical location of their companies, banning crypto advertisements to avoid some legal issues but they can just ban bitcoin or crypto advertisement not whole crypto at all, but about your point I guess it is impossible.

We don't know what is really reason why facebook or even google ban cryptocurrency. But I hope no more website will banned bitcoin because I believe more company again will support bitcoin because they see the potential again of cryptocurrency.

I did not heard any news regarding the banning of facebook and google and I think this is just a speculation trying to destruct the image of cryptocurrency in fact people are still using facebook and google in ICOs bounty campaigns.

Probably facebook prohibits crypto ads because nowadays a lot of new crypto currancy is a scam indication, perhaps to reduce the risk of fraud, but if big coins like bitcoin and ethereum are safer than the new coin to be an investment choice

Yes I do agree with you I don’t think that famous social media like facebook and google forbid bitcoin because I can still watch a lot of sites advertising bitcoin in google, I think the news is true to some extent because facebook has banned scamming sites to help people, but they are now banning bitcoin, scamming site are good to be ban from google and facebook too.

It's just a normal FUD from the media as usual,  they wanna get cheaper bitcoin and other altcoins, and it worked out for them,  today facebook has announced the acceptance of Crypto ad, after bitcoin fell to $5800+ low from previous $8000 it was few months ago when they caused the FUD

Yes they banned cryptocurrencies, but just recently Facebook reversed their ban on cryptocurrencies, so that means you will start seeing adverts on cryptocurrencies and ICOs very soon when you log in on Facebook. I bet they might have set new terms and regulations for companies or organizations that will be advertising ICOs and Cryptocurrencies on Facebook.

But this is really good for the community, cause Facebook is one of the largest social media sites in the world. So it’s very good they started allowing it again. If you doubt what I just said, then you should make some research.

Actually in my opinion they are doing right , Ofcourse Thier decision to ban cryptourrency ads was wrong , because the main reason that why was right decision because these platforms don't want any type of grabage at Thier platform , most of the times when I found any type of the cryptocurrency ads then I saw high risky Investment sites and gambling and ICOs only but I didn't found a good one  except few exchange ads , so in my opinion that was better .
Since few services are better and that are necessary to know by everyone that why now about one week edited Facebook removed his ban of the cryptocurrency ads and they will now allows ads but ICOs and risky and sticky Investment sites are will not be allow at any condition .

Yeah you are right it is just a FUD,, according to me as well social media like facebook, twitter and google are not forbid bitcoin, they were just making some ban over fake and uncertain websites for the protection of investors and traders, because I have seen a lot of people who were new and been scammed because of those fake scammers, so I think facebook or google will never ban bitcoin or any other crypto currency because if sounds impossible to me.

Well it's like a FUD to dump the bitcoin price. And it's funny, lately facebook has reconsidered allowing cryptocurrency ads on their platforms.

I think facebook has relieved the restrictions in cryptocurrency. And most of the other reputed bans from social platforms were just rumours.

Facebook  ban from all types of ads for virtual currency, including Bitcoin and ICO. This is part of a policy against fraudsters.
Facebook's regulations include some examples of these bad ads, such as ads calling for "using a pension fund to buy Bitcoin." Facebook also urged people to report the offending ads, even though it did not specify how many virtual currency ads on the Facebook system were used before the decision was made.

Cryptocurrency will take over all the fiat currency and people holding up Fiat currency will always be against it.  Move on..

there were many scams happened with Facebook ads before hence they banned. though the crypto ads are being banned by the ads team, there are many ICOs still can promote their ICOs. sometimes doesn't understand how they have been doing it. if we don't use the term related to crypto it is still allowed.

Yeah all of it is per planned FUD, people are spreading negativity because they want to get cheaper bitcoin, as they know if they will say bad about bitcoin some inexperienced  new investors will surely get afraid of the new and will sell at panic, but we should spread awareness in people about all this, and it will be a good solution of problems, we should increase people to spread positivist about crypto currency instead of bad news, because facebook and google are not gonna ban crypto currency ever.

Google has begun (sporadically) enforcing the ban. We'll see how long it lasts.

Yeah you are right and this is fact that there are many scams in ICOs and Google and Facebook are credible platform for internet users. They should not promote any Ponzi scheme because it is not good for their credibility. By banning such a scammed ICOs people would also know about their authentication and would avoid investing in such a Ponzi coins.

The regulatory issues of cryptocurrency and ICO have not been resolved this year!
Social media will always ban cryptocurrency and ico ads until the majority of users are protected from ICO scams and misleading investment opportunities!

This ban will soon be removed because I believe that Facebook and Google will not give up huge profits from the advertising of cryptocurrency. Facebook has already started reopening its marketing of ICO projects and I believe Google will continue to do so.

The uplift  of  the  ban  by  face book  will  change  things.  hope  the  effects  will be  felt soon.

Due to some people they were spreading SCAM about ICOs and bitcoins.

I really think that this is a maneuver coming from some of the most powerful countries in the world, social media is a great way to monitor their citizens and that is why they tolerate it, but they are realizing that the interest in cryptocurrencies is spreading too fast in those sites so they forced sites like Facebook to ban ads related to cryptocurrencies to try to stop the interest of the general public in this new asset class.

Facebook has officially reopened for ICO ads and now Facebook has added Blockchain as its director to seriously study its applications in management. I believe that Google and Twitter will also soon return to cryptocurrency.

You are right some people are really making this bad thing with bitcoin, people are saying negative bit it mostly happening so no need to be worry about it trust yourself don’t listen to the bad people who are only here to scam with our money, facebook and google should not ban bitcoin because it does not have any bad impact on the value of those sites infect if they will keep on advertising bitcoin so people will use it for making money, but I am 100% surely it is just a fake news no need to trust them.

I believe the ban that Zuckerburg imposed was really meant to find a blockcahins management team first so they can regulate all the ICO ads from time to time. I knew Marc like the blockchain tech, because he would not succeed with his facebook without becoming a visionary.

Many people say that bitcoin is going to create their own crypto, that’s why they have banned crypto ads on its site but I don’t know why Google stop ads on its page. I think they have banned cryptocurrency on their sites because of the scams and it is not good for their visitors. Their credibility will be suspected and Google will not compromise on the credibility and authentication.

This isn't always a ban on cryptocurrency in fashionable however best a ban on advertising of ICO initiatives. This problem has been raised so commonly however many human beings consider on this from a misunderstanding of the situation.

For me it is really due to the reputation of crypto world for the moment. Bad reputation by bad advertising, bad using, scammers and all this kind of things. When crypto world will be best known and more secure they will surely change their mind and benefit of cryptos

Actions Facebook and Google demonstrate that the cryptocurrency is becoming a more mature asset class, because the ban on advertising is essentially regulation, the emergence of the rules of the game. Most investors in this area are used to be afraid of regulation, since initially the appeal of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency was based on anonymity - nevertheless regulation in any form in the long term should be considered a positive factor.

We all are aware that most of the scammers are relate to the crypto market and use Facebook google to advertise.
These social media can't believe it, and they don't want to lose anything of anyone.
When the user watches the advertising, he attracts to them. Unfortunately, they believe and invest there all money, but later they got scammed and started blaming Facebook advertising.

Since these social sites care about us and want to work with legal so like other they also banned the bitcoins

Simply because so many crypto ads today are link to a scam activity or a scam ico itself. It's the right and prerogative of these giant tech company to stop all scam related ads that might give stain to their company's reputation. But i think they have lifted already the ban because recently, i always seen crypto ads in my FB's newsfeed.

Not that Facebook is really against Bitcoin, they would like people to learn about those stuffs, but still has to protect their users. They believe that there are lots of ICOs, cryptocurrencies and binary options that are not operating in good faith, so they had ban them.

But now I heard that they will be reversing their ban on cryptocurrencies/ICOs, don’t know if they have done that already,and that’s not coming without a new terms and conditions. So whatever they did, they just did it to protect users.

The social media platforms are trying to protect users from fraudulent companies and scams, which have taken advantage of many through advertising campaigns on social media networks.
That's why the Facebook and Google are banning cryptocurrency.

It's simple they work under centralized rules and regulations so if the government says that you have to stop promoting something that can ruin a lot.

Then you're a noob in the cyber world.

I think the reason for banning crypto ads on Google and Facebook is the scam. Scammed coins can mark a negative sign on the credibility of these two big sites. If Google give an ad of a certain coin and it became fake people would think that Google is also a part of such scammed coin. They have decided well and are better for their reputation in the world.

No, that is not the reason they do not care about it, they do not care about their users they just care about the money and this is shown to be true since they are willing to sell your information or to use it for their own benefit, they are doing this because they were ordered to do it, after all they were earning a lot of money with this and no reasonable company likes to lose a legal income stream.

Most of those news turned out to be just rumours.
Crypto ads are still on facebook and other social platforms. The restrictions has been somewhat lessened.
The reason for the skepticism by this social sites is mostly due to the unregulated nature of cryptocurrency.

Now you know! Not all lines that you read on Facebook or Twitter are real, some are to spread romour and fake news to confuse others or just to get audience and reaction from nitizen... So guard your heart when believing  others...

As for me corporations from GAFA and others see a huge threat from to crypto world, not only in redestribution of money Flow, but in users minds change, change in the rate of their resposobility and control of their right and Private data.

I think concept of Internet Will change soon and projects like Brave browse are the early birds. So corporations are not ready for theese changes and want to stop this revolution. Or May be they are controlled by governments Who are not interested in such changes too)