Coinmarketcap promoting shitcoins

[Z-tight]

Tried a few times to refresh the page, no luck. I had to go to coingecko instead.

If the only problem you have is that 'Trending' coins is displayed when you open the site, then like i already explained, move it back to 'Top' coins. And if you close the site and whenever you open it again, it is going to display Top coins to you by default. That's what i did.

The best thing to do is follow the price of bitcoin alone through open source and with a decrease in the preparation of visits, they may change their marketing plans.

With the number of people actively looking for shitcoins, i don't think their traffic is going to reduce anytime soon. I only visit their site to check the price of BTC, so i ignore everything else they are doing.

[coupable]

As you can see from the above image, this is no big deal whether one is set at default or not, you can change yours to what you prefer. This is why it's good to know what you are dealing with before dealing with it. Fine, this could be an agenda, and of course, it could be for money. Still, we can't verify that, and we can't teach anyone how to run their websites.

While you think it's not a big deal, i found it a dangerous tool to promote scams. Afaik binance is the company owner of the cmc website, and this tool would help her promote any shitcoin she accept to list either as a real trending one or as a paid service which is more dangerous. Now i can create a shitcoin and pay unknown exchangers to list it even for a determined period of time let's say not more than five months, then pay cmc to trend it in top trending tab.

[Z-tight]

Afaik binance is the company owner of the cmc website, and this tool would help her promote any shitcoin she accept to list either as a real trending one or as a paid service which is more dangerous.

I do not agree. The tokens that purchased the CMC boost are displayed in a different color, i believe that is enough 'warning' to anyone interested in it that the token is not organically visible at the top, but is being boosted to the top through payments made to CMC. I know that some greedy people would ignore common knowledge like this, but it should otherwise be easy to understand.

[robelneo]

It looks like Coinmarketcap trying to promote shitcoins over being neutral anymore because when I open their site, their default home page is showing 24 hours of trending coins/tokens instead of show the top coins/tokens.

I don't trust them anymore. I got burned following hype on their dashboard, those hype shit tokens are obviously being hype to entice newbies to show that the shitcoin is getting a lot of support.
However, some demands reveal what's trending in the market, and they will wash their hands if anyone falls and loses due to this hype.
People should make decisions based on their own research and analysis, rather than relying solely on a third party. They have a disclaimer that this is not financial advice, and they don't have liability, so start focusing on learning how to check a project.

[Charles-Tim]

Afaik binance is the company owner of the cmc website, and this tool would help her promote any shitcoin she accept to list either as a real trending one or as a paid service which is more dangerous.

I do not agree. The tokens that purchased the CMC boost are displayed in a different color, i believe that is enough 'warning' to anyone interested in it that the token is not organically visible at the top, but is being boosted to the top through payments made to CMC. I know that some greedy people would ignore common knowledge like this, but it should otherwise be easy to understand.

A lot of newbies will not know what you know. I will agree with the people that says Binance will use Coinmarketcap to do something like promoting shit coins. Top coins was the default before on Coinmarketcap but now trending coins. That is kind of shady. They want people to more exposed to shit coins that are full of bump and dump.

[Darker45]

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Coinmarketcap.com isn't neutral since a long time.

They were acquired by Binance a few years back  , so ofc they will promote stuff which interests binance.

I think Coingecko is a nice alternative.  But Coinmarketcap is still usable.

Even before Binance acquired Coinmarketcap, it was already a questionable site that promoted frauds and scams. Rather than a vetting process to make sure what's only listed are legitimate projects, all they have is a payment structure for any project to be admitted and be visible.

Projects are free to put whatever imaginary numbers they have in mind for their volume and whatnot. Projects could even hit the list without basic information about them.

At the end of the day, however, who says Coinmarketcap is a site that guides investors and visitors as to which project is legit, high-quality, promising, or not?

[EarnOnVictor]

As you can see from the above image, this is no big deal whether one is set at default or not, you can change yours to what you prefer. This is why it's good to know what you are dealing with before dealing with it. Fine, this could be an agenda, and of course, it could be for money. Still, we can't verify that, and we can't teach anyone how to run their websites.

While you think it's not a big deal, i found it a dangerous tool to promote scams. Afaik binance is the company owner of the cmc website, and this tool would help her promote any shitcoin she accept to list either as a real trending one or as a paid service which is more dangerous. Now i can create a shitcoin and pay unknown exchangers to list it even for a determined period of time let's say not more than five months, then pay cmc to trend it in top trending tab.

Allegation of inaccuracies and doubts in CMC didn't start today. As I said earlier, it's a choice to use Coinmarketcap, there are alternatives out there. But if you would be sincere, there are reasons why many people are rushing to it, and I tell you, this "Trending" feature is one of them.

I don't trust any websites, so Coinmarketcap can't be an exception. But is their data useful to me, oh yes, especially this "Trending" feature. This feature helped me discovered $SOMI despite my busy schedule last week. You see, many people will continue to complain, while many others will benefits from what others supposedly called manipulation. This is a fast filtering feature for me, and I won't blame CMC if people do not DYOR after seeing data from them.

Everyone dealing with crypto should learn it first and know the possible propaganda that may happen, otherwise, do not involve in crypto. If you are experienced in crypto, you would know that to know the top and best performing coins/tokens, you need to consider the "Top" feature on CMC and trading volumes elsewhere on the website, and their consistency. "Trending" is not a feature to consider here, it's just a popularity, which lapses in a short time.

[ABCbits]

What do you think?

I believe it's one example of "Enshittification". Not very surprising when they include so much information and feature on both homepage and each coin page.

time to move to Coingecko?

I already use Coingecko more frequently than Coinmarketcap these days.