Topic: [2018-03-15] Google to Ban Cryptocurrency Ads. Bitcoin Price Drops (Read 249 times)

Facebook (Instagram), Google, Yandex, Twitter, Snapchat, who's next? What do you think?

I am not surprised by this. Google disabling ICO ads following Facebook is the clearest picture I have seen long before this news came out. It is because up until this moment, corporations, partnerships or entities still look for ways to generate public number through policy-making strategies and see how the public react to massive/substantial changes. It is just like testing waters in every sense of the word. Having said this, we have to look for what is next because surely Google just wanted to see for themselves how this new change affects its clientele. Do not be too consumed by its ban because once the heads realize how a huge chunk of the populace is directly/indirectly affected by it, they will look for means to revert the usual. Of course, they do not want their company to be paralyzed just because of ICOs.

Once more we see how bitcoin in particular and the whole market in general react on bad news

One more meadia giant bans crypto ads and helps to ruin the market a little more
god dammit, I hope it will end soon

Social media giant Snapchat, such as Google and Facebook, will block advertising ICO. Who benefits? personally I believe that the all on hand Bounties companies))

i dont think that the last drop is because of this news,because i believe that google advertisement dont really give cryptos popularitu,because theres a lot of social medias that we use as medium for advertising and same us our bitcointalk.org in which surely guaranteed that all followers are involving cryptocurrency and enough reason for us to circulate our publicity

Well, I think this bad behaviour from Google , because of pressure from some governments on them. Moreover, this decision is unfortunate and  that led to a big fall (crisis) in Bitcoin and other currencies. And despite all the attempts to destroy Bitcoin but they will never achieve their goals, also it is certain that bitcoin will overcome these crises and problems as it did previously with China, South Korea.. and other.

In addition to that, I think there will be a solution in the near future to this small problem and another one which it is the  panic sell, and it is sure that bitcoin  will return to the top, we just have to wait a while.

Cryptocurrency related projects will find alternative ways for promoting and advertising.
Look how easily online casinos in Russia bypassed gambling prohibition law - they started sponsoring movie and TV-show translations and distribution through BitTorrent trackers with their ads embedded.

Hence, the price drop yet again! I smirk about this news because this is definitely not good to us investors. With this, we will be having a hard time making known cryptos to the world for marketing (and probably acceptance) purposes. Not to mention that Google is the biggest in terms of shareholdings with a huge following which carries with it alliances with big and reputable social media companies. Nevertheless, I firmly would want to believe it will blossom in the next quarter. Bitcoin, along with all other cryptos, have not failed me yet. We just have to wait and see.

That explains the sudden drop. It is not a sudden, but I thought Bitcoin was going to remain at 8k$. And now that I am in need of money, bitcoin has failed me again. First Facebook and now Google. I expected that to happen and I think it will be banned all over the social media. The governments must be paying lots of money to the media and social media. But in the end, they are not going to succeed. Bitcoin is much stronger than them.

This is a conspiracy. Giant companies have long seized a monopoly on the market. They have a lot of money. Why should they take part in promoting decentralization? It's in their best interest to keep it that way. If all the giants will prohibit the advertisement of ICO and cryptocurrency, we will survive. There are bitcointalk and other sites that will gladly take this part of the advertising market. But what to do with banks that will block the receipt of Fiat from cryptocurrency exchange. It seems to me that this is the main reason for the fall in the cryptocurrency market.

It's easy to try and rationalise the price drops, but when the price was going up, people tried to do the exact same thing.

When the price goes down people try to look for negative news to justify it and when the price goes up people try and look for positive news to justify it, but at this point the market is largely just speculative and these events are only slightly relevant.  Small swings like this aren't worth trying to justify at all.

This decision isn't even particularly bad for Bitcoin.  If anything, it's just bad for scammers.

The media reported on the impending ban on advertising cryptocurrencies on Twitter, as well as other Internet giants such as Facebook and Google, and prohibit advertising crypto investments and ICO! and all of this with applying authorities! what will all this lead to? in the end they achieve.

If you see in last couple of months social media is acting against it and it is not a good sign as things will now get from good to bad only as something or other will pop up and they will start banning so will things change here for bad for cryptocurrency?

Google just shot himself in the leg!
Cryptocurrencies and related services will grow with or without help from Google. In later case Google will just lose profit from ads.

I don't think Google banning crypto ads is bad news. To me, it is going to help people to take seriously crypto. Why? Well, because there are no ads announcing you "Buy dollars and become rich", for instance, for it will not be seen serious. Many people are skeptic about crypto just for all these spamming activities surrounding them. If you see an ad in Google praying "Buy silver and become rich", you won't probably trust it. It is not different between that and Bitcoin.
Google is just dedicated to stopping scammers and all fraudulent activities that surround the crypto world, as shit ICOs and stuff. So, in time, we will see how this is actually helping Bitcoin. The serious crypto doesn't need such kind of garbage publicity at all.
Regarding about the fall of the prices, I totally disagree as well. Cryptocurrencies are based on demand, and, even when public desitions can affect the investor's trust, they are not so important: the people who actually are inside the crypto trading and this world is not so influent by the news, for they know how this works. Of course, it has a repercussion, but not as big as many people think.
I always prefer just to relax and wait. For, sometimes, what seems to be bad is actually good.
You can read about how it can actually be good (the FB and Google banning) in here: https://www.thestreet.com/story/14525560/1/google-facebook-ban-cryptocurrency-ads-may-be-good-for-bitcoin.html
This is an article I found really interesting today and was shared in this forum in the morning. It gives another approach to the problem, a bright one, and deserves to be read.

If we really want bitcoin to mature as a currency, we should stop hodling and treat it as a currency and promote it's use in everyday transactions. I understand why people would want to get rich, however, I believe that bitcoin was intended to be a tool of exchange, where transactions happen independent of the existing controls in the current monetary system that has been biased in favor of the one percenters who are making the rest of us their "happy slaves". We may not see ourselves as slaves yet but that is what we are. Everything that we do are actually in contribution towards the ever growing wealth of the monetary powers. The same kind of mentality as the money powers has gripped bitcoin and it's not the right direction to go. Bitcoin is a way to start a new path. A way to break from the system. I hope we use our efforts to move towards that direction.

If I understand you correctly you think that G20 summit contributed in price drop? Why do you think so? I didn't read any negative news about bitcoin from G20 summit preparations. I think it is more likely that they will give green light to cryptocurrencies or should I say blockchain technology. But they will make a plan how to stop illegal activities connected to crypto. Which is not bad at all. I think G20 summit in Buenos Aires will have positive impact on price. It is too early tho. We don't have enough information yet but I strongly believe that they will not try to ban crypto trading and exchanges on global level or anything like that. They will just propose some regulations to fight money laundering.

This is not the kind of news i would want to hear, these guys really mean business but the problem is this will send traffic else where were bitcoin and freely exist which these resolutions Google is undertaking.

Well, I think unfortunately you're wrong, because if the following part in your link isn't a ban then I don't know what it is:


However, I don't know what this policy restriction has to do with Christine Lagarde (mentioned in the Coinidol article), so this certainly looks like a FUD-style article meant to drive the price down.

In my opinion, the Google policy is understandable because of the many scams, but it's short-sighted. AdWords could lose market share to other platforms if cryptocurrencies become really popular. And I don't think we need these two centralized giants like the big f and G for that.