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Twitter disallowed users to tweet bitcoin addresses ever since that infamous bitcoin doubler scam. But it looks like you can still put them in your bio.

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This is an address left in someone’s bio on their profile. It must mean that Twitter intentionally does not scan profiles for BTC addresses, only tweets and maybe quote/retweets too. I don’t think they scan DMs, do they?

I was not aware about it.
My recently created Twitter account: https://twitter.com/R777btt
And you can see in the bio I have a BTC address.

And this @Bitcoin_RT is a bot?
They retweeted my tweet and I do not have any idea how they found me, a brand-new account LOL

The way Twitter bots work is they they look for anything with a certain hashtag in it and then indiscriminately retweet it. People follow them since they aggregate tweets from otherwise invisible people together.

where did you find information that Twitter does not allow posting BTC address in a tweet?
as far as I know, they have a restrictive policy towards any fraud or begging for Bitcoin donation. Also, I know for many accounts who had automated price ticker bot, they also suspended because too many posts in a short time due to frequent price changes.
but it all belongs to spam, such is the relation to other branches as well.

If the appearance on that profile, it doesn't matter to me, actually there are lots of fake project twets or those using fake ico names, be careful about responding to twets like that

"Twitter is now restricting posts that contain cryptocurrency addresses" - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/71876/twitter-crypto-address-posts

Someone on twitter pointing this out: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1283621687582265344

So it looks like they've disabled it now but only in the bio? I don't use twitter so i wouldn't know...i still think scammers could use a twitter acc bios to target crypto newcomers

Hum. Honestly don't see how this would prevent any scams but maybe there's something I don't know. I mean, can think of a few easy workarounds: put in a QR code or post an image, or just a link that goes to an invoice asking to pay. Which I suppose, works for anyone who really wants to put an address for legitimate purposes but equally accessible to those not.

I assume that posting Bitcoin addresses in tweets can be considered spamming,which is forbidden by Twitter,just like posting affiliate links in tweets,even though some spammers can find a way to bypass this rule.
Having a Bitcoin address inside your BIO isn't considered spamming,so it's not forbidden by Twitter's Terms of Service.It's OK to have a BTC wallet address in your profile BIO,as long as you are not spamming that address and you are not begging for donations.
Anyway,I'm not a fan of Twitter.There are way better social media platforms. ;D

Honestly, I'm not aware of this news but as per my quick research, this article says.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/twitter-bitcoin-address-hack-elon-musk-cryptocurrency-scam-a9622056.html


Which means it's not only allowed when you do a tweet but it's still allowed when you put that address in your BIO.

It does sound like a bot. The name @Bitcoin_RT might mean Bitcoin_Retweet.
There are more bots like these on twitter. The other day I tweeted something regarding linux using some hashtags and one of those bots retweeted my tweet.
So it basically means there are certain hashtags which the bots keep monitoring and whenever a user tweets it, the bots retweets them.

Twitter should also ban images and links to protect people from being scammed. Selective censorship is not helpful when it comes to fighting against fraud: they shouldn't stop here. I am wondering how Jack Dorsey can be the proponent of bitcoin and, at the same time, be supportive of such measures? Double standards?

Oh, yes. I forgot about this incident. that's ok, there were too many scams in those days using hack problem.
I am not sure, but is it feasible to prohibit the posting of QR codes? it's a little more complicated to catch BTC addresses from images.

on Twitter still needs human resources to check for these wrongdoing. It is clear that Twitter is still quite weak to ensure that scams are not present on their social media sites.
Not only crypto, 18+ sensitive topics are rampant on Twitter and no one has yet handled those video clips :)
So don't trust any social media too much, check it carefully before you speculate on something. Even if it is a celebrity fundraising project or event, you need to verify it before making a deposit.

Twitter has been trying to fight the crypto industry for a long time, but even they understand that this is the wrong decision.

I was already tested and it was successfully tweeted the image that has a QR code and has a Bitcoin address above.  Probably the bot will be detected in tweet post if you will manually type the random strings of letters and numbers that considered as a Bitcoin address.  So, it might be the hack will happen again through posting image of QR code or Bitcoin address through images.

Do you think this is a good decision for the Twitter team? I think that isn't, because the hack happened was because of their weak security level that called, social engineering attack.  They shouldn't blame posting the Bitcoin address here nor improve their security level that never been hacked again.

You're still prohibited to tweet bitcoin addresses on the platform, though that workaround is pretty clever but surely wouldn't receive much attention. I just hate that Jack and co. thought that barring such content on the website would do the trick. Twitter used to be a social media site wherein you can get information pretty quickly on a certain topic yet they are slowly resorting to just suppress certain topics that they don't like, or that certain groups of people don't like, and it's pretty annoying.

I guess they should also focus on Twitter's security to prevent verified accounts from getting accessed on different locations in a short span of time, but I guess censoring some things is a way easier fix. Not that I am against combatting schemes like the ones used on several high-profile accounts. I just dislike the way the fix is implemented.


They use certain keywords to identify whether an account is connected to cryptocurrencies or not. I switched my personal profile strictly to not talk anything about cryptocurrencies since it's annoying that two or three bots would like and retweet what you tweeted just because the word "bitcoin" is in it.

I think twitter is disable when promoting your bitcoin refferral account and available if only tweet with your bitcoin address, maybe on your tweet have link connected with bitcoin exchange website and this make your tweet block, I always make tweet for my wallet ethereum or bitcoin address when joining airdrop project and is not block anymore. You should check back your tweet why is block and check detail did you submit website of crypto or not because if only tweet with bitcoin wallet address is available on twitter or facebook.

I don't know about this one, but they only banned bitcoin address? *does eth address included? I mean I see a lot of people posting their eth address in some giveaways of some influencers does it also included? if this thing it true maybe it will help to lessen some scams and fraud but it will never stops them. If people always patronize those easy winning and easy earning things t, banning some address in Twitter will not help, they can rather say that via dm send their address like that.

Find it an enormous bullshit on twitter side: shouldn't they also ban every FIAT currency tag / reference then because of all the scams happened with classic money?
I can use a knife to murder someone or to spread Nutella on bread in the morning for breakfast : it's not the knife to blame.

What surprises me most is twitter stance on the dichotomy Cryptocurrency/Classic financial System has always been in favour of cryptocurrency and their Ceo has been a long time BTC fan and recently stated Bitcoin and blockchain are the future.

Yeah it's creator made a cryptocurrency company in cashapp.
And not to long ago they allowed the BTC symbol to be a usable emoji on their platform.
So no to using bitcoin addresses is a strange 180.

Twitter restricting posts that contain crypto-currency addresses, not only Bitcoin Address.

I think this is the response of Twitter regarding the hacking incidents before. I don't know why they didn't include the bio on Twitter. But do you think Twitter must include it in restricting crypto-currency addresses?

Wow, didn’t know that Twitter disabled posting of bitcoin addresses on their platform.
Imagine if they did that since before the doubler scam happened, it would have been able to reduce the extent at which the scam affected people. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad idea they disabled posting of addresses, it’s something they have to do to protect their platform users, it’s good.

Moreover I don’t see the need why anyone would be tweeting their address, you can just put it in your bio or your website and offer whatever services there.

We must appreciate what has been done Twitter with disabled posting BTC address, This is an action taken by Twitter regarding incident
scams that have occurred frequently regarding cryptocurrency on their platform. Although it is not perfect because it can still write Bitcoin
address in bio on profile. But at least the Twitter developer team has tried to protect its users from scammers, I am sure that Twitter will
soon disable the Bitcoin address in the bio too, after getting reports from several people who found these deficiencies.

From what I read on the internet, they only said users can no longer include a bitcoin address in their tweets they didn't include users bio, so posting a bitcoin address on your bio is allowed, I believe they took this action to stop the high rate of spamming and scamming on their platform, but I have some questions, was it just bitcoin addresses that got banned? what about  Ethereum addresses? even if they were able to block users from including bitcoin address in their tweets, what will stop scammers from sending it to people in their dm's, just wondering if their system can detect that and stop it ::).

Ethereum addresses seem to be blocked like Bitcoin addresses because Ethereum addresses are always included by scammers in their posts. The new rules by blocking Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses aim to reduce fraud that occurs, but of course there will be many other methods used to post addresses such as QR codes or by giving a dot on the address and it will be posted.

Other crypto addresses may be blocked if the fraudulent activity on the crypto address is high.

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1283621687582265344

Well, I don't know this news from Twitter, just now I have read the OP post and the article that they prohibit the user to post a tweet that Bitcoin address. I guess this good to avoid the possible scam on Twitter just like what happened a few months ago when a massive of high profile accounts were scammed and stole bitcoin just because of the greedy thing.

Those accounts that have been a victim by the scammers, I guess users now they already know right at this moment that there is a possible scam on the.

Exactly, this is how the Youtube fake giveaways are done they just put in the QR code for people to scan in their mobile wallets so I doubt scammers won't have think about this loophole once they have discovered that text messages for Bitcoin addresses are now disabled. It actually didn't stop the scam but actually prevented all people not only the scammers from posting their Bitcoin addresses in their tweets, some people might just be there posting there addresses for different purposes and now they are affected as well.

scanning dm's is crazy . it was like reading our dm's , yikes i dont think they are gonna do that and i never experience before that my dm's are restricted on every social media and random sites that i used . bio can be different from tweets and replies because it cant cause a spam , the only threat is if the famous account holder were got hacked because hackers can post thier btc address in the bio of thier victims but twitter team are now also acting to tighten thier security because of the numerous numbers of attacks that happened this year

Keep in mind Twitter is mainly used on mobile, especially if someone is likely to get scammed. So an address in a bio is not something easily exploitable by fraudsters.

Maybe a bot that automatically retweet about bitcoin contents, etc. Im not sure yet.

And about that twitter's new protocol, that's to prevent scammers to spread their btc address. I guess twitter doesn't aware that users can still put their bitcoin address on their bio and still had a chance to scam users like tweeting of something bout btc doubler again and saying, "check out my bio and send some btc there". Or putting some telegram usernames for private messaging. There are a lot of ways scammers will find even twitter will prevent putting btc address in tweets.

Still twitter does not support cryptocurrency due to people uses the platform for their scam activities. It is a sad event that twitter do not have trust with the people promoting cryptocurrency to which mostly they are using fake profiles and identity. The worst is that scammers use other influence name and pictures to scam other people. Well, whatever it is I think the best way is to use other platfoem like facebook. Facebook does not ban any people making fake profiles and promote cryptocurrency.

It's like the crypto business/website blacklist that some governments maintain (I can think of the French and Malaysian ones, for example). You take these websites down or blacklist them, but it actually doesn't stop the scam. If authorities wanted, they might be better off actually just allowing these addresses and silently track them down and pin them when liquidating. Suppose it's too much trouble.

so twitter basically just disabled wallet adresses or completely any bitcoin related posts?
if that's so lots of people will have to try find another way to share their information

There are a ton of bullshit going on in the social media including scams and doublers and no wonder they restricted those, in the fiat currency you cannot start a same scheme without giving out your identity and the scammers wont work that way  ;).

 Since you had a nutella analogy, even in this case bitcoin cannot be blamed and the scammers trying to take advantage of the pseudo anonymity is to be blamed and it is easier for them to restrict everyone that post a wallet address than pick and choose who is legit and who is committing a crime.

I am seeing this for the first time. I don't think this is a solution if one can still post address in BIO. I am not active on Twitter, I'd have test posting addresses of coins like ETH, LTC and others. If any of these coins address can be posted, then I think it's just a useless policy from Twitter.

The difference is they aren't blocking a website but rather the website itself is blocking a kind of payment system with what they are doing. For someone like Jack Dorsey who vocally support Bitcoin and implement this kind of system in their website it make it look like what he is supporting isn't avoidable from scams with the solution they have implemented. They should have another alternative for screening scams and not affecting all btc addresses. He must show that it is possible to eliminate scams at the same time make people post their Bitcoin addresses online. 

But most scammer use script that is being pointed at by a url. I do not see how this will prevent scam except if the scammer make a post and put the bitcoin address which I do not think people might fall for it. Those scammers with Elon Musk giveaway either post text image containing website that contain the bitcoin addresses and fake recent transaction to make the victim think it is legitimate and by the way this is not apply to bitcoin. I posted ETH address and it was not restricted 

This is first time I'm hearing  about this, and I'm guessing Twitter stopped it cus of the rate of scamming on their platform now, I just read some articles about it, and from what I read it seems Twitter only stopped people from making tweets that includes a bitcoin address they didn't including posting it as a bio, so it's still allowed,if it wasn't their bot would have detected it.
I'm not so sure about this, cus even the owner of Twitter Jack Dorsey, now supports crypto, there's a pinned post on his TL he said he's transferring about 28% percent of wealth to crypto, so I'm not sure about Twitter be an  anti-crypto.

After all the scams happened in the community of twitter, I believe that this move of twitter is good. However, if not all address will be disabled to be posted then I think it is specific only for the address used by the scammers. Twitter just want to protect their users from potential scam. Even I am a twitter user I think posting of btc address is not that much needed.

They are protecting their users as after those incidents it will lessen the chance, even if it's not all preventing other address may do. But at the end of the

day, it's still the users that's needed to work on their securities twitter was use as a platform but it's more on the end users to protect themselves being

victimized by scammers who are always just around and waiting for their opportunities to attack.

Due to recent issues including Twitter hacks involving famous individuals accounts, that maybe the reason why Twitter is doing such to serve as a counter measure to stop the scammers from intruding the platform so that no other people will be victimized by such schemes. Also, what I have known is that Twitter is restricting people or pages to ask for donations regarding any matter to avoid people from getting caught into such situation that they might be potentially scam or hacked in any other way possible. This action done by Twitter is just showing how they are really concern on the welfare of its users to fight back against hacks and scams so that the recent issue that have happened will not happen again on the platform.

I thing honestly don't see how this would prevent any scams but maybe there's something I don't know. I mean, can think of a few easy workarounds: put in a QR code or post an image, or just a link that goes to an invoice asking to pay. Which I suppose, works for anyone who really wants to put an address for legitimate purposes but equally accessible to those not.

This seems like an overreaction. I would guess that most people posting their address are doing it for benign reasons. They would probably just rather avoid the negative attention they get whenever there's a big scam and that's their reason for doing this. Hopefully the scams go away but they always seem to figure out a new way to trick users.

No, scam will never go away in the mainstream world especially for bitcoin. Scammer are constantly looking for ways to trap people until they get what they want. But it looks like Twitter is just taking precaution for reason what happened before. To be honest, I haven't used Twitter in a while and I wasn't aware of any such restriction. So I don't think the ban has a negative impact on bitcoin and the good thing is that people can still send their bitcoin addres with QR code and on their profile.

I tried posting my bitcoin address on twitter, it has been posted successfully. Maybe twitter will remove it anytime soon. I think twitter is just taking a precaution for the protection and privacy of its users. If ever that they really disable it, I think there's a way of putting it in a tweet aside from placing it in your bio, you can add "@" somewhere in your address just like on facebook there are some links that facebook disable us from sending through pm so I think with that character "@" we can tweet and access bitcoin addresses from twitter.

I believe that it is for protection for users. Twitter has a first role as a business outfit to protect the people in the platform. So any thing that can create doubt in the minds of its customers can be checked and sending btc address is one of them to avoid fraud and scam.

I wasn't informed about that thing in Twitter because I am not that too active in social media but I think Twitter disable tweet using bitcoin address or crypto wallet address to prevent scamming, even though our crypto address is for the public, it does necessary means that aw should post it on social media whenever we want, we should still be careful of the things we ate going to do online because hackers and scammers are always there especially on social media platforms. It is like baning a Facebook platform for using the hashtag bitcoin in some certain areas.

Still available for tweet bitcoin address on twitter social media account, you can check with many participants or airdrop tweet their wallet when airdrop beginning, thousand people tweet address and not block. You have active on airdrop project to know is real or not because I always submit my eth address and bitcoin address during have airdrop event  needed to retweet address on airdrop tweet. Every airdrop more than thousand tweet but still safety without block by twitter.

I didn’t know this matter because I still could able to post my Bitcoin address in my bio in my account. Also, I have seen many users who truly joined giveaways there and can still comment on their bitcoin address. So twitter didn't completely disable to post bitcoin address and maybe in the future their is a restriction as these days a lot of scammers existing.

After the many hacks that have occurred on important accounts on twitter, people are starting to be wary of what they share so as not to be scammed a second time.
I don't know if Twitter is not serious about its security or the hackers are able to easily find security holes on Twitter.

Filtering bitcoin addresses may be one way to reduce the incidence of fraud using bitcoin, but this will not change and eliminate the scammers. there will be many other ways they try. will not be a system and a safe place in the online world, we as users must also be vigilant. Remember that on youtube scammer ads appear freely and of course include the BITCOIN and ETH addresses.

It helpful in less aspect since scammers who post giveaways will be eliminated but it cannot drive away some certain scammers who have other methods of scamming since they can just create websites or a group chats where they can post their addresses to scam people   thats's why the only thing can save us from scams is being educated and to know the different scam tactics as well doesn't believe on big returns on short period of time since this is the most use front of scammers.

That is a shame. Twitter was a very good and open platform until some years ago, but now seems it only gets worse. There is a lot of censorship and abusive control over accounts there right now. It's already time for a new really open and if possible, decentralized social media go mainstream. There are some options, but not popular enough yet.

About Twitter's excuse they did this to prevent *scams* it is even more ridiculous. It's like the father who catches his daughter and her boyfriend making out on the lounge's couch, but instead of reprehending the act he removes the couch from the lounge, as it was a solution for the issue...

I am not really aware of this for I have not done this before on my tweet, I'm a great of user of twitter but I only write son crypto related hash tags, I just quickly have a thought that saving btc address on a profile can trace users with multiple accounts if actually twitter is against that rule.
What I have noticed nowadays, is that many upcoming projects uses twitter as a major social media for promotions, as CEO and teams gives #btc a unique icon.

Perhaps, it will signify that the address you have on your profile is the real bitcoin address you are using for transactions. It was not allowed to be posted on tweets nor to be sent as a message and the reason might be because compromised accounts could spam other for their bitcoins it it could be easily seen in tweets and messages.

I don't think this is the best precautionary measure twitter should do to avoid the bitcoin scamming incident again. They should devise a new protocol, increase the security of their app, and improve their verification process to help avoid these incidents.

Big profits with a small deposit do give hope to people who are new to crypto and want to get more and faster profits. There are many methods that will be used to spread, although not on twitter, chat groups like telegram are currently being favored by scammers and creating many groups to commit fraud. We all have to be aware of the many scams in the online world, including in the crypto world, which has a higher risk because if anyone is deceived, no one will be able to help him and return the money that has been taken by the fraudster.

I thought it was just a temporary deterrent as a sign they were responding to previous scam reports about bitcoin, like bitcoin doublers being tweeted by artist account hacks. Twitter as a cryptocurrency-friendly social media will increase security with a new protocol to prevent scams.

It's a total nonsense. Why do you have to disable posting of bitcoin addresses because your system seems was shit and someone was able to hack it and include his bitcoin address in posts. What if someone decides to edit posts with Paypal short links? Or emails? Do we have to disable placing of pp links and emails? Without a doubt, it's like when doing nothing is better than doing something.

Same applies to facebook too and even on google, there are some crypto advertisements which as far as I know is forbidden right now and nothing has changed lately in this rule. Btw they can't control everything, we have to use our brain.

Yeah, I mean, I totally get the intent and that this will in the short term at least, save a few idiots from clicking and paying but at the end of the day you're just postponing an idiot's day of getting had.

OF course, this could just be a legal thing. Other rich idiots later suing them for not doing enough to protect their reputations and all that. I believe FB and Yahoo have been sued for allowing scams when obviously scammers will always find a way to bypass. This is what it's all come to I guess.