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Previously Facebook banned crypto ads, Google decided to do so in this upcoming June. Now some like fud news circulating that twitter will ban its crypto and related content ads too. And recently like minutes ago Snapchat banned ICO ads in its platform, unlike the said platforms snapchat only banned ICO which is also a good choice. But can somebody tell me if no one cares about this ban?  :D I don't even use snapchat like for real.

Sources:
https://www.coindesk.com/social-media-giant-snap-confirms-its-banned-ico-ads/
https://cheddar.com/videos/snapchat-bans-cryptocurrency-ico-ads/

I didn't even realise that snapchat has advertisments for anything? Where can those be found? I found it funny when people were worrying about twitter because it's nothing compared to facebook and google but snapchat is just a joke! This will make next to no difference to the market.

people don't worry about this trend where all these social media companies have banned crypto ads , if the governments of the world could not not stop crypto currencies i doubt any of these companies whether singly or combined can even dream of doing this , these new developments further point to the need for crypto currency stakeholders to develop their own apps, media sites , information farms etc, infact they have the best platform to do this .......blockchain.

Can't imagine this will make any type of difference lol; anyone who chose to invest in an ICO based on a Snapchat ad was probably interested in the tech for the wrong reason

I think this is not a thing investors should care about but people dump on these news... As google and fb ban crypto ads, this news is not surprising.

compare with other sites such as facebook or google then certainly snapchat users is more less and i think this banned only have small effect for cryptocurrencies users because snapchat isn't too popular such as the sites i was mentioned about so investors should not too worried about this news

Hmm all this is weird all of a sudden all major social media sites have decided to ban to anything related to crypto looks like they are earning enough money nowadays but i'm 100% sure in the future they will not only allow crypto related ads but also accept cryptocurrencies so that users can purchase their stupid filters or whatever they call it that shit

Let's save the above for future  :P
ICO aren't good nowadays i have gained only losses from most of my investments made during November it's a good news so that newbies don't end up wasting their money on most of the shit ico.

Snapchat is shit don't even know why people use that shit.  :D

Here's the revenue of major advertising sites https://www.recode.net/2018/3/19/17123674/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-advertising-ban-microsoft-twitter-google-facebook-oath-snap

Meh. Snapchat is quite irrelevant anyway. Pretty much all significant platforms has banned cryptocurrency ads already. I don't see advertisement bannings getting worse from here. What could be worse? Bannings of crypto-related search results on Google. I really doubt that would happen though.

What is this happening. 1st Facebook the great social media has banned the crypto currency ads, then Google also do this . And now Snapchat has also going on this path. What will happen next. I m scared.

it's 10 years since Cryptocurrency was born, many bad news, fud, dumping,... but Cryptocurrency still strong and ICOs too. I think people will have new way to finding informations, and the ICO Founder will have new way to advertising thier Coin/Token too as many new community platform/application are coming.

Lol what is next, Myspace going to ban ICO ads too? I honestly didn't even know Snapchat carried ICO ads, and to me the target audience is too little. Seems like a waste of trying to do an advertisement, but hey I am not the one advertising ICOs left, right, and center ::).

I care, but for different reasons  ;D.
I hope that ICO ads will be banned from any damn website in the future.

Till now I'm still waiting to see a real ICO coin or token that delivers what it has promised as curently I'm seeing a lot of them falling and leaving users with useless tokens.
When I browse the altcoins section for a few minutes I feel the urge for a bottle of vodka as I'm unable to understand why in the name of god would somebody believe those coins would be worth anything or used as the "devs" are promising.

As long as they are not targeting discussion between users or banning the word bitcoin they could do whatever they want. After all, it's their platform they can enforce whatever rules they want.
And quite ironic....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3162509.0

It seems all social platform is following the trail of Twitter. I believe it's for security reason.  

On a serious note, that would be taking the fight to the streets if Google does that. As for Snapchat, it barely has enough subscribers to get that ban noticed. But truth be told, ICOs should either be banned or highly regulated all through the platforms. They have become convenient ventures for easy scams..

I'm not surprised, it is like the wild west out there at the moment with people getting scammed left right and centre. As long as top coins like bitcoin and ethereum can continue to be advertised then crypto will continue to push for mainstream adoption.

Just read an article about it now. I think now everyone is following footsteps of social media giants like facebook and twitter. But may be they are right. ICOs are very easy way to earn money now. Many people are just scamming. The abuse of the system has led the SEC to conduct a probe into the ICOs.

I have not even heard about Snapchat yet. Apparently, soon all social networks will ban advertising ICO, because they are very fraudulent. Perhaps this is even the right step. With swindlers somehow you need to fight. To advertise ICO projects there is this forum and it can not be a fraudulent advertisement of ICO projects. Therefore, the value and prestige of this forum will only increase after such prohibitions.

I think that this is a step in the right direction. ICOs are a cancer on the cryptocurrency community. Nothing good comes of them, they exist only to make their creators a quick buck.

I'm not very surprised by this news. Once facebook dumped it, the other social media platforms will be quick to follow. Snapchat has been on the downhill since it's last major update. I would have thought that they would be holding onto what ever they could to make money via ads.... but they just keep following in step with everyone else.

I don't use snapchat but there will be some effect again with the pricing of bitcoin and I guess it's now on effect from $9,000 it was down by $200 today so this might be the reason for this quick drop.
Twitter hasn't banned ICO/crypto ads yet but yeah everyone is following the leaders in this industry.

It's no fault of theirs and they are not doing this because they have some kind of malice against bitcoin, the problem is that most of these Ads are being used to scam unsuspecting people who are interested in investing in cryptocurrencies and the companies have to take responsibilty and protect the interest of their interests. I for one think this is a good thing because these scams give cryptocurrencies a bad name which affects the price.

very sad news! More and more bans appear on the crypto market! all these restrictions make very serious players who are hampered by bitcoin and his life! most likely these are people from the bank, they are now losing a lot of money due to the increase in capitalization in the crypto market!

I really don't know how this is even ever so slightly scary. Are you living in a rock or something? Haven't you seen those ads? Full of cloud mining and ICO ads. I honestly haven't seen a single decent cryptocurrency advertisement since forever.

Crypto should survive this, the people who are truly interested and want to invest in tech for the right reasons will seek out information in other ways. The ads you see on snapchat are usually for some sort of product with flashy images that grab your attention. If someone really wanted to learn about an ICO it would be imperative to read as much as possible on the tech behind it, the development team and the overall odds of adoption. There's just too much information that requires serious contemplation, ads on snapchat on the other hand aren't always conducive to this sort of thing considering the app revolves around ephemeral communication--and could therefore be easily molded into gateways for scams.

This ban will not be cared for as it seems that all social media services agree to ban crypto and ICO ads. However, I would agree that the ban is only directed to ICO advertisements. An ICO fundraiser can really make someone who follows it to get a big profit but from the experience in the market today many are only using ICO as a way to gain profits quickly and after that investors leave the coin. With the prohibition of crypto and ICO advertisements by various social media services may in the future lead to new social media that specifically support crypto and I will support if the new social media emerges.

I really couldn't care less. I don't use Snapchat, and as I can see anyone who uses Snapchat and social media all the time don't know anything about cryptocurrencies, so cryptos are not going to lose much public there. Facebook and Google might have some impact, but still only a few people got into crypto by an advertisement.

Sometimes I don't blame this website and social media treats to ban. These icos are really fraudulent and wicked in nature. You will have them promise all goodies but at the end, they won't keep to promise, won't be listed or are very much a shit and nonsense coin.

We don't need these advertisments anyway. Is Bitcoin advertised on TV? Why? Because we do not need it. Bitcoin is not a product which is sold to other people by a certain company which only thinks about the profit. Bitcoin is maintained by it's huge community which aim is to make Bitcoin popular and widely accepted because of its specification. People are tired of using banks which are too large, slow and not reliable anymore. People panic because popular services prohibit advertising everything what is connected with cryptocurrencies. Stop and think for a while if it is the thing we should be focused on.

this is another bad news for cryptos. I don't think Snapchat gives any influence to crypto, but the its news gives influence to the market. However, I believe cryptos are products of a leading technologies and nothing can stop technologies which means Crypto and ICO will find its way to grow.

People that are into crypto and all that, probably aren't using snapchat on daily occasion or at all. Audience there are teenagers, young adults who're posting memes and celebrities. Nothing of value is lost. That ban will probably have no impact at all or something quite small.

This is a Fud news for crypto world,It's part of manipulation so they will bring down the price of all alts. Probably those company will merge to blockchain and will build their own token.

$200-$400 dropped is just normal in bitcoin price, I don't even know if this ban will hit a huge impact on the market as I don't feel snapchat a huge platform in terms of its users.

And regarding the twitter bans for crypto ads, I don't think if it will happen as Mr. Dorsey (Twitter's and Square CEO) just said
"Bitcoin Will Become World’s ‘Single Currency’ Within A Decade"
Source: Twitter CEO Says Bitcoin Will Become World’s ‘Single Currency’ Within A Decade (https://cointelegraph.com/news/twitter-ceo-says-bitcoin-will-become-worlds-single-currency-within-a-decad) as this news spreading throughout the net I don't find a clue of banning crypto ads in his social media platform unless government told him to do so.

But now you did :D

How I wish that all social media sites will ban ICO ads including those ponzi schemes ads.

More social media will follow suit because the rate of scams using ICOs Ads have become out of control. They have to protect their interests and the interests of their users.

Wonderful. Now YouTube should soon follow up. Because let's admit it, these ads are annoying. And these ads are the reason why idiots get into doing stupid things without consulting anyone or doing any due diligence of their own and they end up being scammed. And yeah snapchat is for wannabes,legit. And it's interface is shit. But I don't think much advertisment of ICO's were there in snapchat but I could be wrong cause I never used it.

A ban on ICO is not even a malice. It is not even against bitcoin because most ICO depend on the ethereum blockchain or they formulate theirs. They hardly use the btc chain. I think all social media banning ICOs is a good thing. Let their adverts be only on this forum, bitcointalk.

If some social site banned bitcoin the impact in the price go low because i see a lot of users use only that and not this forum like twitter,instagram,slack and facebook but still we can find a way to spread crypto all over the world and i think they will banned this now but not for so long because crypto is worth it so better to study it to gain knowledge while we can earn this is like business so better to prepare in all things that can happen

In surveying the number of users of Snapchat globally, obviously the number of users will be extremely small compared to Google or Facebook however banning of ICOs ads will not have any significant effects, it's look like a major trend is launched against Cryptos by social media which I belief will not have any impact on Cryptos going by already growing adoptability globally.

That's an interesting way to look at it. Google, Snap, Twitter, Facebook ban ICO ads and I don't think its going to stop ICO's, maybe slow down a bit. I also don't understand that companies like google (twitter, facebook, instagram...) make most of their revenue from the advertisements they show us and they've made shitloads of money from those ICO ads till now. If they can refuse that huge money that means there is something more important than money, which is ICO's itself.

They saw most of those ICO's are scams (or possible scams) and they don't want to advertise those "possible" scams willingly. It is because people are dumb (if they weren't they would use adblock and google wouldn't even survive this long) and when they lose money because of those ICO's, they'll sue google (or the others) because google told them to "get in"

I just remembered my friend "invested" in some scam ICO in December which he found via a google Ad. Of course that dumbass couldn't get his money back. Now he is staying away from everything related to crypto. He doesn't admit that he was dumb, instead he blames everything else.

Does anybody know about other social media platforms that are banning ICO Ads too?

Yes that can be normal but it's still an effect due to any reason and I'm just guessing that it's because of it.
Yes that's great news that's why I've said that it won't ban crypto so those false speculations about twitter should end now.

Its time to banned ico adds all the popular social media  . few days ago at first start it Facebook then google then twitter and now snap chat its really common situation for all the platform. i think behind the main reason to stop fake ico that's why all the media do that.

What happens with them? Is it a conspiracy between the biggest social media sites? I think that everyone of them has plan why they banned cryptocurrency right now. I think that aside from they don't like ICOs scam to exist, they want also to eliminate other ICO that will become a hindrance to their business.

Let them all take swipes at the cryptocurrency markets. At the end if the day they'll join the bandwagon, they know what's coming, that's why they are doing all this from Microsoft to Google to what not: CRYPTO IS HERE AND ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE!!!!

For me this is a good moved to ban ICO because its really bring bad light to crypto in general. But banning doesn't equate total stoppage because we all really know that crypto is unstoppable as you have pointed out. At the long run, this ban will just be another setbacks that we have overcome. We have proven that we have this sort of staying power.

The truth is that is just part of our growing pains, it will sting a little in the beginning, but eventually everyone who really wants to invest in crypto or ICO's will always find its way to the ecosystem. No matter how many social media sites ban ICO ads.

Sadly it is because there are many scam ICO's out there, the ICO's ads got banned.
This have a good things too, it filters the scam ICO's out of the social media.

I can not blame Snapchat and other platforms banning ICO ads. I also can not blame Chinese or Koreans bannng ICOs or trading. We all know that most ICOs are scam and we have to behave against scammers as cryptocurrency enthusiasts. These scammers scares most people and this makes Bitcoin is still considered as a bad thing. There has to be some regulations controlling scam projects.

Yeah , it's a conspiracy....
You know who the mastermind is ?

It's this guy> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35
He was the first one to ban ICO ads on a social platform, the exact platform where you hang out right now.


Yeah, they will but at least it will stop a lot of people that were going to be deceived by ICOs wanting to put vegetables into the blockchain like Prodeum did. The only one that are going to invest are the ones that are going to really do a research and not just click an ad and that's it, bullet proof way of losing all your money.

As I've said it before a hundred times (or maybe less) in those ICO topics, is there an ICO that has actually delivered it's RL product?

It doesn't really matters to me since i never using that social media site. Even if the other sites banned the ads related to cryptos, the cryptoworld will still survive and will keeps on going into it's direction. I expect more banning from the other sites but it doesn't bother me at all. There will always be a way to spread things about the cryptos.

I don't use snapchat either, their stock price is continuously declining as well as facebook due to the recent data scandal. I think twitter is planning or doing something that could follow the steps of those giants. So you people see that those who have hate crypto is getting their karma right after. On the other hand, as those company blocks ico, there is a huge potential that startups will prefer to use bitcointalk to promote their company and service as oppose to those giant advertising company. If one closes a dooor a new door will open somewhere and it is here at the forum.

Lol, people thought Facebook baning ICO ads won't have that much of an effect because there were many other platforms which still had ICO advertisements. If this is the case now maybe ICOs will lose a lot of advertisements and would have to find other ways to advertise their ICOs. Facebook, Twitter and also Snapchat can prove to be the platform for advertisements due to their large user base.

I knew that it was also coming and very soon all the other social media platforms are going to follow suit as well and completely ban it as well. But this is not going to bring any negative effect to the market at all.

I think they are scared by the rumors circulating about scams and the possibility of using cryptocurrencies for illegal operations. Perhaps they fear class actions of cheated investors for advertising scams.

well after the ban of google and facebook the other social media platforms whether they ban or not I guess it won`t have a huge effect on price of cryptos as the others are not as influential as google and fb.

If anyone is really interested in the growth of bitcoin, then you would care and be bothered about the bans here and there because its sending only one message which is heard loud and clear all over the world and that is crypto currency cannot be trusted. To someone already aware of crypto currency, you can separate the trustworthy ICOs from the others, you can separate bitcoin and other reputable coins from the rest but to a new individual its one and the same.

Again, its not about whether someone is using Snapchat or Instagram but what mattered is getting the message out and this platforms have been a useful means that spread beyond geographical locations, since its likely impossible to advertise on TVs. Aside that a lot of people have come in contact with crypto currency because of advert of an ICO which he didn't eventually participate. But now, all of those means are being shut, then we are likely to get stuck at a point of even go down further.