Twitter didn’t completely disable posting bitcoin addresses

[molsewid]

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.

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?

[lixer]

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.

[MCobian]

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.

[Traderbtcc]

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 .

[taufik123]

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

[ReiMomo]

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.

[Harlot]

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.

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.

[imstillthebest]

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

[aesma]

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.

[maxreish]

I was not aware about it.
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

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.

[jademaxxiss012]

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.

[buwaytress]

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.

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.

[farrellronald]

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

[7788bitcoin]

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.

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.

[Krislaw]

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.

[Harlot]

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.

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.

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. 

[thesmallgod]

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 

[nelson4lov]

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.

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

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.

[Gibreil]

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.

[ardentvolcanoes]

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.