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Agatha Thursday at 17:23
Coins, tokens, ICOs and other payments related to blockchain technology have seen a growth in popularity over the last several months. There has been a subsequent proliferation of information on Medium around these topics.
For consumers
Medium does not approve or verify user-generated posts or accounts before publishing. As with any financial transaction, we urge you to protect yourself and your money with at least the following steps:
Thoroughly research the information, company, and seller using third party sources before engaging in any transaction.
Verify you are dealing with the company itself (not an impostor).
Navigate DIRECTLY to trusted sites before initiating any payment.
If you have any doubts whatsoever, do not engage in transactions.
Further reading:

Know the risks before investing in cryptocurrencies (FTC.gov)
Cryptocurrency Scams: What to Look For (Inc.com)
Here are 3 signs a cryptocurrency is a fraud (Mic.com)
How To Spot A Bitcoin Scam (Forbes.com)
For companies announcing ICOs, coins or tokens
While Medium is not in a position to independently verify every coin, token, or similar announcement published, we are instituting the following requirements for product and sale announcements and accounts related to these topics. 

Posts and accounts which do not meet these standards may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context.
 
You must:
Include a link to your active project domain in your user account bio.
Use an email address from that domain as your registered Medium account email.
Verify your email address with Medium if you have not, and maintain that email account actively.
Link at least one consistently-branded social media account (Facebook or Twitter) to your Medium account. That social account should also link out prominently to the same domain as is included in your Medium user bio.
Include a prominent about page with up-to-date contact information on your project website.
Include only one wallet address maximum in a post.
You may not:
Use an anonymous email address which is not linked to your project domain. (e.g., gmail, protonmail, mail.ru, etc.)
Advertise or participate in bounty campaigns, pump and dumps, reviewing for reward, or other forms of brigading or inauthentic activity.
Include naked links or shortened URLs in your posts.
Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts.
Include multiple wallet addresses (or similar) in a post.

Wow, what is going on in Silicon Valley? They're not cracking down on free speech, they're cracking down on free enterprise.

I've got no issues with that. I think there are plenty of alternatives for bounty hunters... Medium is really built to help projects use their blogging platform as an integration into their own websites and a good community to start with. LinkedIn should do the same... It feels really spammy these days looking at my Medium and LinkedIn feeds.

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually i think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually i think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

There have been lot of medium account banned, I do not know why the reason. But I guess more of them created the copy paste articles, perhaps your account is suspected by medium for that reason.

>:(

My account was suspended for the following new rule introduced in Medium politic:


You are in time to migrate on Steemit or other similar platforms

This is sad to see.  I do see changes in the future though.  Sites like Steemit are catching on (although I personally don't like the platform) and I believe that we'll see many more coming to life in the future.  Of course, getting the amount of users like Medium, Facebook, Twitter & Google (the last 3 for advertising) will take some time, but I also feel that we'll see rapid growth in some of these platforms from the crypto users and supports, which in turn will bring it to the masses.

Sorry that your account was banned, that is bullsh*t.

[...] Notwithstanding the rules are clear and forbidden bounty articles without exceptions.

Posts and accounts which do not meet these standards may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context.

I too have a account on the medium i didn't receive any email about it. Do you have chat with the support team on medium. Ask them whether it is true or not.

I think it was banned for good reasons. As what has @Patatas has said, maybe it has something to do with bounties. Specially that there are non-English posters there who are really putting up that no one really understands because of broken English or even worst to scam people out of their hard earn money. It has nothing to do with the free speech or something. Sometimes you need to know where you stand, and at this point, looks like Medium is really fed up and says that they need to put a stop on it otherwise it will ruined the online publishing platform or social journalism that they established.

Great step taken by Medium.Their servers were unnecessarily clogged by broken English speaking bounty whores.I love anything and everything that makes lives of the bounty hunters miserable.I wish even facebook and instagram takes the same steps and stops crypto related promotional activities such as bounties.
 
Bounty whoring should not exist on any social media platforms.I have no idea how to explain how much I hate bounty whores.