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I noticed google news is saying some older BTC addresses are liquidating, and we should be afraid of BTC stability and viability..

Me thinks this is FUD being spread by the bankster crooks.

It would help to point to the article.
The world is full of "news writers" that don't understand what they write about, especially if it's a translated or too technical stuff. It may have been that or the usual FUD. However, without a link we cannot tell.

If you find the link and post it, please put it in a code tag and change http(s) to hxxp(s) so we don't help those with back links  ;)

Well, google news is like daily news from different websites that is not written by actual google company itself, at least the majority of it based from my research.

So maybe the algorithm picked up that you are into Bitcoin and that is why google news is recommending you news regarding Bitcoin. I do get some notifications from google news from time to time from my phone so that's probably what is happening to you right now.

Basically, google news isn't spreading FUD in my opinion, it's just the algorithm recommending you news based on your recent search history.

Some links would help us a little though.

That's correct. But afaik Google should "fight fake news" and check (as possible, obviously) what their algorithms return. I guess that this time it was a big #fail.

Let me guess, you're referring to this article? https://cointelegraph.com/news/old-hands-selling-out-metric-shows-bitcoin-price-at-risk-of-hodlers-dumping

Then I'm not sure why you're really blaming Google here. It's not like they're the one who wrote the article, or something like them "sPrEaDiNg fUd To DeStRoY BitCorN". Because surprise surprise, articles like these are the ones that actually gets a lot of clicks, so it's partly our fault as readers.

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In summary:

• Negative news: FUD
• Positive news: MOON

Of course, everything that is not praising BTC for curing cancer, eradicate poverty, and discovering life on Mars is FUD, and of course, again everything it is paid by the banksters. There is data from glassnode (https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1318154088635224065) (which myself I find it pretty unreliable) that claim this, so rather than shouting FUD, you should try to prove this is wrong if the news is fake.

Again, things that you don't like are not FUD.

You could start by criticizing the article for not making the difference between coins moved from wallets and coins moved to exchanges but rather than that you grabbed the pitchfork and yelled FUD, bankster, and everything else, forgetting to even add a link to what caused all this.

I don’t think it is the FUD that caused the liquidation of some old BTC holders. I believe that it has something to do with the current situation that we have now in the world, the pandemic. Still hasn’t been entirely stopped ever since the beginning. There are even cases popping up, and there's no complete solution yet.

What are the things that those banksters are spreading? Please tell me what you are talking about. Cite some sources.

lol, very common with some btc enthusiast to call anything and everything that is not directly speaking in-favor of btc to be FUD, i think crypto in general is like that, anyone say any slight negative thing or a critics is regarded as fud, perhaps OP should take it as a warning and understand the rationale behind the news, besides, there is nothing new even this is fud from google or other website, at the end btc will always pull through.  

I see that the FUD on Bitcoin at the moment does not have much impact on Bitcoin's destruction of value.
Bitcoin has had too many FUDs in the past two months due to bad news regarding major exchanges being hacked, problems involving the operators of OKex, Bitmex, or news of COVID-19 infection. U.S. president. Bitcoin on exchanges has been exhausting since March of this year so there won't be a lot of bitcoins to sell to lower prices.
Bitcoin is at a stable price above $ 10,000 and I don't believe it will continue to depreciate.

Above all, participants in the crypto community will know where to read the important and official information, not just on Google. Large investors and companies have been involved in buying bitcoins for a long time and have no reason for Bitcoin to fall in price.

Often times I come across articles about bitcoin but I never consider FUD news even though it's bad news made by the media in the article, but the algorithm will still follow our path, which is often visited, it often appears on Google news, if we respond this is serious and saying this is FUD means we are still too sensitive to media news

It is also true that if the OP shares the sources that say it will be better because we will know the content of the news that we are talking about.

Old hands sell, and the price goes up - let them just sell even more :D

I'm sure it's an article, and why the OP blames Google for FUD is that it found the article via Google Search, or got it served via Google Discover on its smartphone (which was the case with me). I don’t think OP understands the basics of the internet, Google is certainly not a company to be commended when it comes to user privacy - but in this particular case they shouldn’t be blamed for anything.

That's a good way to see it. Google and other websites in the past have been dishing out negative news way back. And this is not the first time such is coming up. Whether seen as fud or not, bitcoin adoption has gone past that fear at this time

I agree with you here. Google is not to be blamed here. I thought at first reading the title thread, someone from the camp of Google wrote the article. But came to find out, they have nothing to do with the article. Is he going to blame google for all the negative news articles written towards bitcoin? I guess, this is not fair on their part. It is the reader himself that should filter the news, so many fake news nowadays. As a reader, you need to know how to identify articles based on facts.

Please share the Link or the Ads that gives this FUD ,i have not encountered one of this kind but i will be sad if Google are being used by Banksters just to make this market fall.

I know how desperate banks in putting our community here down but not in this kind of war,they seems to be defeated using Google news to spread Fud.

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Anyway they cannot do anything to stop our progress here and they will sooner adopt us instead of fighting in bad ways.

The news like that is normal , i mean there is always negative comments or news come up everyday on anything , to amybody , you know that is how reporter making news that makes reader curious.
As everybody else has pointed put above regardimg the google news , you are making a misleading perception here .
Google news referring any article that suits your dailu search on your browser.
If you spent your day by typing bitcoin price then your google news will refer to several articles imcluded the one youmention and accused here lol
Calm dpwn.

Tbf, fake news and the like is an everyday occurrence, not just with Google, it's literally everywhere. Social media itself is filled with fake news, but does anyone report that? Just correct it or question it whenever someone actually spreads info and you see them. Anyone who's pretty in the know about crypto should know about whether it's true or not, but most especially it's not FUD. Google is basically just like a billboard or something that allows anyone that pays to show their articles and the like, so blaming google here seems quite unreasonable.

Why bothered if you think it's fake and there's nothing to worry about that since we are dealing that everyday. But come to think that why would people believe that also? Maybe some will get afraid but for sure the same with other those things will subside. But for what I see also google is not spreading that maybe some random article popping up on chrome so best not to believe on what you read since not all written on the net is true.

Search engines should possess certain qualities such as credibility, accuracy and scam resistance. Visitors rely on the information returned to them when accessing the internet, and simply allowing anyone who places a bid to get visibility for whatever content is not good practice as it puts visitors at risk.
There has been events of Google promoting phishing sites and storing user data, so an inaccurate publication is not much of a surprise at this point

Everyone who is concerned with privacy and security should consider using alternative search engines like DuckDuckgo or SearX.

That's true and it's our fault because of our curious mind to become a unfaithful instantly for any fuds. So it's better to control ourselft before taking any steps. BTW, your replies are most suitable with enough maturity and fan of your replies.  :D

We should always check if the news source is correct or is it just another fake news around the internet.
And besides it wouldn't really be FUD they just want to let us know what is really happening it is up to us to react on it if we want to take it as FUD or just keep calm.

google news ? as in they own the source ? or you mean you just click on the news tab in the google result page .

i havent seen google have thier own news site and most of all they wont release such fud because they are a legit company  . anyone can liquidate thier assets and so what if its an older address , what its difference with a new one . not all old adress have a big btc balance but most new wallets have . no point of being afraid but we need to be brave if we are on this business

I agree with this, bitcoin is based on the idea of giving freedom back to people and if that means that the opponents of bitcoin can scream with all their strength that bitcoin is a scam so be it, people need to be smart enough to know that they are either lying or at least exaggerating on their claims and if they cannot maybe they are not ready for this market yet, this posture may seem odd but the truth is that those that oppose bitcoin at the moment have the complete control of the media and we cannot counter that so I think it is the only posture that is reasonable we can take.

If you are already long in this industry and you are aware and always updated on the real things happening in here, then you do not have to worry nor bother about such FUDs you were talking about that you have read because you know the truth and that truth must be the one you have to believe in with. But such news will surely put fear and make people avoid the crypto industry especially for those newbies and non-crypto users thinking that such things are really happening. But as a responsible reader or netizen reading news over internet, better verify the legibility and reliability of the source of the source of the news article you have read so you won't easily make believe into false information and spread it into other people. Better do check if it is true before believing on such.

Precisely. How many people are aware of Google News in the first place? Let it be, No point in wasting energy with being afraid of FUD. FUD only works when a lot of cryptocurrency hodlers see it. And for a non-famous news source like Google News with barely an amount of viewerbase, we can rest assured that nothing will happen at all. Not that FUD can affect bitcoin at this point anyway.

First, I did search the news about this on Google News and found nothing. Are you sure Google News spreading this fud? Can you drop the link? Because, if you have no proof, it means that you yourself personally spread the fud.
Or, it may be your own bad imagination because of too afraid of becoming liquidity soon?


Oh, I see, thanks for sharing this, in fact, this article came from a popular website.
And OP also should know that the title with clickbait will be more interested to be clicked by the readers.


And this is our task here when facing any FUD coming from any sources (not only sites but also other sources like YouTube, social Media, certain TV news, and others). We must be wiser and smarter in facing the FUD, be calm, not panic check and recheck the truth, and wait for a moment to take a breath in order to know what to think about it.

It's hard to believe to that information we find out right now on the internet because we don't know which is the truth you just need to seek more information to confirm if the source see reliable I think the OP just click news about the crypto-related on the tab of Google news if you recently find some article about it for sure google will recommend you an new like this.

Always seek the truth and not just only rely on the things we saw on the internet.

If you do try to look in https://news.google.com/ then it do all shows sites that have corresponding news related into a certain topic.

So it isnt really precise to tell that this one came from google itself but rather on other news sites.This is why its important that op should at least put up some source
so that people arent really continuing to make up some guesses.

When it comes to FUD's then this entire crypto market and those people who had been here on this market for a while now had already get used to it.

I browse and checked some of the recent news feeds on Google news and can't find the article.

If that article was found on Google News then you have to check the source. It's not that once you see it on Google News feeds, they are the ones who did the report.

But whatever it is, FUD is already part of Bitcoin's ecosystem so it's usual. It's up to you how will you react to that news.

Fomo and fud help the market to move. But it is up to the market players who will react to the given news. There are many existing news that may trigger our emotions and instantly go to the flow of the market. Specially if its a big catalyst. Well, considering the fact that it might be a fake news or bumping a news just to give fud the people. We have also try to reverse their idea. We can buy during the fud and sell when it rise again. As of the moment, btc is kicking the market.

What else could you expect from 2020 media anyway? At this point the only effective weapon against FUD is competence and self education

Google isn't a news provider. They just aggregate stories from sources they think you'd be interested in. They don't do a very good job, though. My feed is full of defi and ethereum stories; stuff I don't really care about. If you give the story a thumbs down it might improve your feed somewhat.

We can't rely all the information that we need on Google because most of the news and articles that we could read there are from different websites and most of them are unreliable. It's still for us to be skeptical and observant and not to believe easily whether it's FOMO of FUD. Our own research is still necessary for us to know the recent situation of the market. We should educate ourselves so we can't be fooled by different fake news being spread on the internet.

It would be appropriate to put the link of the article your speaking, because instead of google. It is you who's spreading FUD.
Also what you're saying is very illogical, because mostly Bitcoin addresses are old, if that we're to happen then every Bitcoin Hodlers money will be liquidated and it will crush the price. That would be the Bitcoin core devs fault for having an error to their program.

If you think so then don't bother about this FUD at all. FUD only matters to newbies. The longer they stay with Bitcoin, the more familiar they become with FUD, and how it has somehow become part and parcel of Bitcoin's growth. You stick with Bitcoin for at least a year and news intended to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt won't evoke the same emotions from you anymore. Sometimes they only bring laughter.

The idea that so-called banksters are behind any negative news is as old as Bitcoin, since it comes from the narrative that Bitcoin is the revolution against bankers and soon the whole world will use it instead of fiat money. But I'm pretty sure that bankers actually don't care that much about Bitcoin, in the current state it's absolutely not a threat to them, adoption is low, scalability is bad, value is unstable - so what if 0.00001% of their customers leave them for Bitcoin? There's no point in paying for negative press, and they might even view Bitcoin as another opportunity for making money, if they offer Bitcoin-related services to their clients.

You are just saying base on what you know.
You didn't even share the link of the article where you see this news.

FUDS?? Nonsense for me. Investors are more knowledgeable right now compare to them 3 years ago and they aren't investing base on the news. Share the link here of what you are saying ;).

I remember when people were extremely bullish on bitcoin going $1m and even $10m, IMO one should take these posts as serious as most articles. being fud or bullishness, history showed no one really knew exactly what price it will reach and when.
Usually news article are meant for views, not your financial wellbeing.

Google ads or sites you say? Because google is only giving service and that is by making it accessible the information to all users using the google service.

Your post OP might also be misleading to google services and it is better to post link here to support your claim. For now, I will not believe that google will spread FUD except that mostly of the information they provide are actually factual and are based on their researcg except again if the information provided was not come from them that usually few of the information they provide are missing or not true at all.

In some cases, the news about the spread of FUD has been seen a lot, but this news did not make Bitcoin weaken and crumble, now you can see that Bitcoin is still there and getting higher, news like that will not be able to make Bitcoin destroyed because everyone believes that Bitcoin will become the most valuable asset in the future. In my opinion, you should provide a link about the news that you see so that many people here know and don't think badly about the news you mention.

 Any links bout this?
 
 Google news?
 
 You mean the button news in google? The google is just a platform using by the writer of that news. When they established a news or an article through google and I don't think it's the google who are at fault by saying that. Find the author and the link so we may also see the news you are saying.

How about you start reading posts other than OPs and titles? mk4 is posted link at the very beginning of this thread, and you do nothing but shit posting/signature spamming >:(

 ;D ;D ;D i like the words "surprise surprise, articles like these are the ones that actually gets a lot of clicks, so it's partly our fault as readers." and yeah we can't blame the google because the news not actually from the google, google just crawling the data and make visible on the internet

What can we expect from google sites?they even sell our KYC to private companies lol,though i have no concrete proof but there are threads here that explains how it works.
Spreading FUD in this market is not yet anymore impressive not like in the past days when FUD can make the market turns into Red.
Now those activities are just part of the stupidity of each investors to believe.

Basically there are individuals who writes those shits from their anus without any good understanding of the technology, so, this could just be a click bait for those who don't read headlines before click. FUD is common with the industry and this type can either help in positive or negative FUD. Bitcoin as a stronghold in cryptocurrencies will continue to be strong, personally, this older bitcoin wallets won't be liquidating as the write-up said.

It ain't google but it's the cryptocurrency media agencies that are looking for contents like that. You can't stop them if they are covering such news like that. I don't think that they do that to spread fud but they do that for the sake of the content and news.

But if you think that it's just a fud, why you have to worry about bitcoin's stability? it has been volatile yet has a better and stable market than any other cryptocurrency.

you did not include the news link that you meant, I am curious to see it, I don't have to worry about any news forget it because they are only paid to create chaos, especially news from Google that will never be heard in the crypto community space

You need to clarify things since Google isn't really providing the news here its the crypto news websites their search engine is showing up and yes you are correct that they mainly create FUD in the market. The more controversial or alarming the news they have the more clicks/visits they will have for their website and they will have more money from their ad revenue. Google doesn't really have any point in this since if their SEO is adjusted to show these websites then they don't have any choice but to show their news.

That was ridiculous to hear.
This writer making good to manipulate innocent people who never know yet about bitcoin and think negatively about it.
Some writers also making an encouraging thought about Bitcoin and it makes readers feel better and assurance in investing crypto.

Who we gonna think that is telling the truth?
Probably we know that already, none of them. I let people think differently from a person who has less or no interest in crypto will surely spit bad than those who have been there already.

I hope Google will look into this situation and take action for all fake issues so it won't mislead every reader.

This is like searching for illness with simple cough symptoms and Google would tell you that you have brain tumor.
I can't see why Google would spread such information while it is just doing its algorithm.

It’s not Google, you should mention the name of the website. I make use of Google news too and what it does is to generate news based on your interest. So, if Bitcoin is one of your interests you’re going to be seeing be seeing any news on bitcoin, whether good or bad.

Hence, you should have checked the website that posted the news and then copy out the link.That way we can as well take a look at the news and see what it’s really referring to. And just one news like that cannot be enough to cause FUD in the market, it will keep growing.

I have seen this thread but i had nothing much to tell because the buy order for pilling up and i wanted to see the price of bitcoin breaking the resistance and we have breached the $12k valuation and these sort of news will pop up every now and then and it is not a big surprise. Just scroll back and watch these kind of negative news popping up during the last halving when the market was about to move higher and the same circle is continuing here even though i have not checked the validity of the news i guess that is happening here.

It good you noticed that but you also spreading FUD yourself by not providing adequate information so we can be sure if what you're saying is truth or a news with a cook up story.

For each and everything people look for the suggestion from Google. It gives you the suggestion and the rest is upto you. One needs to analyse and understand the reality rather than believing what Google has said. Whether it is about the positive side or it is about the negative part of bitcoin, believe if there is strong proof relating it.

Google does some technical game at times. This might be considered as FUD, and if we are sure of the statement revealed is against the truth we can claim it.

It is not only bankers who are trying to spread the FUD, but governments as well, governments and banks are the first enemy of Bitcoin because they love control and centralization, but despite all these rumors and concerns that they spread, we see that the spread of Bitcoin is increasing day by day and will increase more and more after the giant Paypal joined the Bitcoin world .

Writers  need some interesting title and sometimes their opinion on the topic at hand seems off and creating confusion and fear to some btc hodlers. I read many articles like that not only about Bitcoin. Some writers editorial job needs some polishing.

Don't worry mate this will also favor bitcoin and crytocurrencies because remember that Good or bad publicity is also a publicity.
this means Google news is spreading the bitcoins name and people might get interested in checking and learning about this.
so all in all it will help us also for popularization so don't bother about the issue and let it just happen.

This is just most ridiculous statement. It is completely contracting with the well know nature of bitcoin! I mean we are afraid of stability and viability?, since when it was stable anyway. It's very nature is "volatile" which we might have heard, read thousand times through an article published everyday.

Moreover, google has got nothing to do with such news. If anyway there is such news floating around then it's because someone is publishing them on the Google Platform. I mean come on Google is multi billion business, why would they care.

I think whatever mainstream is pushing is a contrarian indicator.

If google news is pushing bearish news, then it's probably going higher. :)

It's not pushing anything!

It recommends you popular articles in your country. Actually these articles are rarely mainstream. My google is recomending me stock exchange portals and my local news portals that say something about Bitcoin. I don't even have that article from cointelegraph mentioned in the beginning of the thread in my recommended news.

Most likely OP was reading cointelegraph lately, or people in his country read it, or both and google added 1 and 1 and he thinks he's getting FUD delivered directly to his phone or whatever.

For me it is just an update to us to let us know what they are doing and we should be cautious.
For me when we use the word FUD or FOMO it is for fake news to make the price move as they want.
When it is true then I wouldn't consider it a FUD or FOMO but instead a knowledge that we should use.

There's a huge chance that this is true, not everyone is trusting the current market, I could say, it is quite sad but the truth is, many of bitcoin hodlers are investors who want profit, they have their own mindset on how they will expect the market to perform. Some are having a target price when they sell. Though liquidating funds is quite normal but for google to emphasize it for me is a form of control. Perhaps they don't Bitcoin to dominate the market. One example is when youtube is "Shadow Banning" cryptocurrency content. We can see these implicit negative views of google towards cryptocurrency, so I think it's time for us to choose alternatives.

They are not spreading FUD. Google news is a news aggregator service by google.
All people can apply to be accepted on google news content distribution.
I also have a website that accpeted to become publisher on google news.
Whenever new post updated on my website, it will be pushed to google news.
The content will be visible on your smartphone if your interest meets the google news algorithm for my content.
When you read a news from google news, you may consider to double check the source.

Agree, the purpose of the media to inform the public of world events has been twisted by one simple thing, money. A great deal of what we could call traditional media is being held in place by government money and as soon as that happens then the media losses all power when it comes to finding the truth behind the world events and becomes nothing more but a propaganda machine of the state, which is what we are seeing now, and the only way to protect yourself form those harmful effects is to learn to think by yourself and in the case of bitcoin it is clear that any FUD they propagate could not affect a person that knows the true nature and purpose of bitcoin.