I don’t know for what reason that Baidu doesn’t let bitcoin-related advertisement appear on their site but I don’t think it’s gonna cause much lost in bitcoin as well as affect much in the bitcoin world.
Because as I can see that Chinese is famous about these bitcoin stuffs and they seem to know a lot about bitcoin and in my experience of surfing the web, I’ve rarely seen an advertisement about bitcoin or anything deals with it, a stopping in bringing bitcoin to the Chinese on Baidu won’t be that serious.
Topic: Baidu Stops All Bitcoin-Related Advertising (Read 1975 times)
Baidu ban is not going to affect bitcoin at all.For one baidu is mostly china centric while bitcoin is universal.Second chinese love bitcoin more than they love baidu so they can dump baidu if they have to choose between two of them 
In terms of price, Bitcoin's actually gone up in the last few hours. I completely agree with you. This will stop nothing, and Bitcoin will continue to grow, no matter who suppresses it!
Whenever there is good news , bad news follows for some reasons. (Twitch re-adds Bitcoin as payment method and now Baidu stops everything related to it).
How many people even use Baidu?Don't think that will be doing any bad to the bitcoin world except for faucets.Do you think they will stop showing faucets as well? Faucet==Bitcoin adds==Against baidu's new terms and conditions?Because Great Firewall of China most services used by Chinese people are local equivalents of global/western services - so instead of Google they have Baidu, instead of Youtube they have Youku
and Facebook is Renren
Okay they're always trying for cloning and making the identity for their nations in digital world.
Baidu ban is not going to affect bitcoin at all.For one baidu is mostly china centric while bitcoin is universal.Second chinese love bitcoin more than they love baidu so they can dump baidu if they have to choose between two of them
of course it is not going to affect the bitcoin at all, in my opinion in the future it is going to grow only and nothing else will happen 
Baidu ban is not going to affect bitcoin at all.For one baidu is mostly china centric while bitcoin is universal.Second chinese love bitcoin more than they love baidu so they can dump baidu if they have to choose between two of them
Until someone gives a public explanation, we will be speculating on what the reason behind this is. The Chinese government will never admit to having a role to play in this, but I will never rule them
out. The only reason I can think on why they still tolerating Bitcoin, is because they have total dominance on the mining side of Bitcoin. There are millions invested in mining farms and also the energy
spend at these mining farms.
out. The only reason I can think on why they still tolerating Bitcoin, is because they have total dominance on the mining side of Bitcoin. There are millions invested in mining farms and also the energy
spend at these mining farms.
It is bad news and it will make price of bitcoin will going down, and making popularity of bitcoin going down too. But this is not first time bitcoin be attacked by negative news and bitcoin was survived.
the effect will be minimal (if any at all). there are other ways of getting the message of bitcoin to people. however, ask yourself this. would there be a positive impact on bitcoin when google start advertising bitcoin? probably a bit, but not so much in the way that we'll feel it when google removes the ads again.
Google already is advertising bitcoins.Just type in the browser "Best Bitcoin Wallets" and you should see the sponsored adds on the left. Matter of fact,no ponzi's/exchange sites are being shown at the ad results but sure they're doing on the independent adsense based add engines.Doesn't really help promote bitcoin or anything but helping the businesses with the right customers. I think baidu will reindex it again in their search engine..
the effect will be minimal (if any at all). there are other ways of getting the message of bitcoin to people. however, ask yourself this. would there be a positive impact on bitcoin when google start advertising bitcoin? probably a bit, but not so much in the way that we'll feel it when google removes the ads again.
Google already is advertising bitcoins.Just type in the browser "Best Bitcoin Wallets" and you should see the sponsored adds on the left. Matter of fact,no ponzi's/exchange sites are being shown at the ad results but sure they're doing on the independent adsense based add engines.Doesn't really help promote bitcoin or anything but helping the businesses with the right customers. I honestly do not know how to feel about this. Even if Baidu is considered as the fourth most visited, I do not know just how much Baidu has a contribution to Bitcoin. I mean, would it actually be a big impact? I am honestly asking the question here.
the effect will be minimal (if any at all). there are other ways of getting the message of bitcoin to people. however, ask yourself this. would there be a positive impact on bitcoin when google start advertising bitcoin? probably a bit, but not so much in the way that we'll feel it when google removes the ads again.
Whenever there is good news , bad news follows for some reasons. (Twitch re-adds Bitcoin as payment method and now Baidu stops everything related to it).
How many people even use Baidu?Don't think that will be doing any bad to the bitcoin world except for faucets.Do you think they will stop showing faucets as well? Faucet==Bitcoin adds==Against baidu's new terms and conditions?Because Great Firewall of China most services used by Chinese people are local equivalents of global/western services - so instead of Google they have Baidu, instead of Youtube they have Youku
and Facebook is Renren
I honestly do not know how to feel about this. Even if Baidu is considered as the fourth most visited, I do not know just how much Baidu has a contribution to Bitcoin. I mean, would it actually be a big impact? I am honestly asking the question here.
Have you ever done anything Bitcoin related through google advertising? I have not. Now if Baidu were removing all Bitcoin related search results, then it's time to cream your knickers.
Well we've had many online merchants stop accepting Bitcoin related payments, it's just all a trend and often very few turn back to use Bitcoins again like Twitch. I really don't mind much about Baidu, but the people in China would. In the first place it was really nice of them have Bitcoin-related advertising. Looking forward to earning from the Brave browser.
I honestly do not know how to feel about this. Even if Baidu is considered as the fourth most visited, I do not know just how much Baidu has a contribution to Bitcoin. I mean, would it actually be a big impact? I am honestly asking the question here.
Cointelegraph gave two possible reasons since Baidu didn't make any statements.
- Because of Ponzi schemes which they can't control
- Because government asked them to.
- Because of Ponzi schemes which they can't control
- Because government asked them to.
1. Is unlikely... They can't control how many ponzis exist, but they can definitely control whatever is advertised on their website and even ask users to report scammy or malicious ads. I believe the second option would be more likely...
Well, it would be nice if we knew why they stopped with Bitcoin. It's definitely not a good sign that big businesses like Baidu abandon Bitcoin after having implemented it.
It's a search engine. The only thing they stopped implementing was advertising. If they'd implemented Bitcoin itself they'd have had their arses shut down by the government.
How much Bitcoin advertising was taking place on there? Considering you can't use Bitcoin for anything in China there's no incentive for anyone to advertise it other than exchanges.
Correct.People these days make a deal out of such petty news.I wonder why would OP call it a bad move in the faith of bitcoin's future.As said,blowing it out of proportions. Btw exchanges are not the only bitcoin businesses out there.You can pretty much advertise a faucet/a ponzi that is.Good the site made the update.I'm happy they won't be telling me where to invest my coins anymore. *Was tired of that crap already.Most likely it was some sort of test or trial period and it failed to live up to it's expectation.
i just used baidu and when searching for things related to bitcoin, i found them.
so users wanting to learn about bitcoin still can, the search function has not been affected.
the only issue i see is the baidu version of adsense being affected, which means faucets getting affected.
this is not a big deal because advertising usually only works by showing people what they are already interested in.
this means its not like bitcoin advertising was doing much to get new people to see bitcoin adverts, but just showing adverts to people already having browser history and cookie data that reveals a pre-existing interest in bitcoin.
to me i do not see it affecting bitcoins popularity or growth one bit, (apart from a few facuets dropping off)
i feel the reasons behind it are due to faucet raiders with fake clickbait webpages that dont earn baidu real revenue, and also alot of the adverts trn out to be scams and ponzi's.
all in all i dont see it negatively hurting bitcoin and dont see it as big news
so users wanting to learn about bitcoin still can, the search function has not been affected.
the only issue i see is the baidu version of adsense being affected, which means faucets getting affected.
this is not a big deal because advertising usually only works by showing people what they are already interested in.
this means its not like bitcoin advertising was doing much to get new people to see bitcoin adverts, but just showing adverts to people already having browser history and cookie data that reveals a pre-existing interest in bitcoin.
to me i do not see it affecting bitcoins popularity or growth one bit, (apart from a few facuets dropping off)
i feel the reasons behind it are due to faucet raiders with fake clickbait webpages that dont earn baidu real revenue, and also alot of the adverts trn out to be scams and ponzi's.
all in all i dont see it negatively hurting bitcoin and dont see it as big news
Cointelegraph gave two possible reasons since Baidu didn't make any statements.
- Because of Ponzi schemes which they can't control
- Because government asked them to.
if it's because of ponzi schemes than this is bad for bitcoin since its bad reputation is hurting bitcoin. we need to do something about this.
if it's because of the government than i can understand it and it might be another point for bitcoin. maybe even bring some more clientele.
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now Baidu stops everything related to it
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My reaction:now Baidu stops everything related to it
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Does it even matter? Baidu is just a search engine and not a Bitcoin community. Them stopping everything related to bitcoin cannot affect us significantly unless they start rumours and say bad stuffs about bitcoin.
They might be the 4th most visited website but I bet it's just because it's the default search engine on browsers on Chinese phones like XiaoMi, etc. Thus, the only audience that will be "affected" are Chinese people and I think Chinese people that are already doing Bitcoins will not leave this community just because of what Baidu did.
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