Altcoins Talks - Cryptocurrency Forum
Further Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Amug123 on April 03, 2025, 02:52:56 PM
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Social media platform have missed opportunities to promote cryptocurrency in a more meaningful way, social media platform could have done more to educate users about the benefits and risk of cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through partnership with reputable organizations, educational content, and influencer campaigns, social media platform could have fostered more inclusive and supportive communities around cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through feature like community forum, thank God for altcoinforum and bitcointalk, live streaming and events. By taking more strategic approach, social media platform can play a more meaningful in promoting cryptocurrency and driving mainstream adoption.
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Social media is used to hype crypto but doesn’t do enough to educate people. It could have partnered with experts, shared useful content, and created forums or live events to help users learn. Platforms like AltcoinForum and Bitcointalk help, but big social media sites could have done more to support real crypto communities and drive mainstream adoption.
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I don't think so; forums like Bitcointalk and altcoinstalk are still the best place to promote and educate people about cryptocurrency; all that we're seeing on social media are promotions of dubious coins and ponzi-like coins.
Many of the coins being promoted on social media are airdrops, memes, and high-yield coins; it failed to educate people on how cryptocurrency works and how to properly invest in them.
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Social media is used to hype crypto but doesn’t do enough to educate people. It could have partnered with experts, shared useful content, and created forums or live events to help users learn. Platforms like AltcoinForum and Bitcointalk help, but big social media sites could have done more to support real crypto communities and drive mainstream adoption.
Nowadays what we see on social media are just hypes or news that's creating fud on every financial market. So many influencers have turn it to their hub for unnecessary show case of their life styles. There are so many good ways to promote cryptocurrency on social medias, even though we have more of the web3 on xspasce, it can still be used to promote more of crypto. Thanks to the creators of btt and att, so many of us are educated on how these things works because we came across these two platforms.
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Of course, social media is a very good medium for crypto promotion. Social media is used by almost all internet users, so it is very easy to make anything visible to everyone. Crypto promotion is one of them. With the Boost option in mind, paid promotion options on social media, promoting any product or service has become much easier and potential. Gambling promotion is especially widespread on social media.
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Social media has spread the word about crypto but doesn't educate the users on how it works, it only spread about how people can make money out of it and get rich quick.
The social media posts of some users doesn't even make users learn about blockchain and how it works. And some posts are only about trading and the markets,
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Influencers are taking advantage of their naive followers, they simply promote something shady after getting a big pay check instead of creating real awareness. But still lot of content creators who try to educate but they are not getting enough attention as they deserve to be and that's how social media works, the negative ones will always get more popular.
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Social media platform have missed opportunities to promote cryptocurrency in a more meaningful way, social media platform could have done more to educate users about the benefits and risk of cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through partnership with reputable organizations, educational content, and influencer campaigns, social media platform could have fostered more inclusive and supportive communities around cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through feature like community forum, thank God for altcoinforum and bitcointalk, live streaming and events. By taking more strategic approach, social media platform can play a more meaningful in promoting cryptocurrency and driving mainstream adoption.
We do know that these social media platforms on which this is the fastest and broadest way on sharing and showing up information but there's always that pros and cons too on which we know that informations being shared up or shown might that false or deceptive. Come to think that anyone could freely post up on whatever that they do have in mind on which this could be that misleading and if you are just that a noob then you might that easily get hooked up on whats been shared. This is why you should be that careful too on seeing on things on social media. Also, when you do try to hover neither on facebook and X then you can see tons or been flooded out with those tweets and post with those meme coin scam projects. ;D
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Social media is used to hype crypto but doesn’t do enough to educate people. It could have partnered with experts, shared useful content, and created forums or live events to help users learn. Platforms like AltcoinForum and Bitcointalk help, but big social media sites could have done more to support real crypto communities and drive mainstream adoption.
It's because some of them has the intentions behind, or just to shill certain coin because they are a holder or being paid by the project to promote it. And another thing is that some social media doesn't really validate their news, they will just publish it without checking with the project themselves. So it's better to check everything and not just believed on what you saw on social media that talks about cryptocurrencies. And I don't think that mainstream media will chance their stance, they will continue to attack specially Bitcoin no matter what.
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Likes and reshares are what drive content on social media. If they were combined with scientific, educational, and grounded content, the content would be better. However, everyone using X or other platforms is seeking quick profit, not learning. Therefore, try to engage with good, educational posts to reach more followers and encourage others to create similar content.
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Social media platform have missed opportunities to promote cryptocurrency in a more meaningful way, social media platform could have done more to educate users about the benefits and risk of cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through partnership with reputable organizations, educational content, and influencer campaigns, social media platform could have fostered more inclusive and supportive communities around cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through feature like community forum, thank God for altcoinforum and bitcointalk, live streaming and events. By taking more strategic approach, social media platform can play a more meaningful in promoting cryptocurrency and driving mainstream adoption.
but social media platforms are not the ones responsible for promoting cryptocurrencies they do not exist for crypto so we can't expect for them to promote crypto it should be us that should be promoting crypto projects social media platforms are merely tools for us to use
and plus there is already a lot of information on the internet there are many ads and there are many crypto exposure even in national tv so i do not think that social media lacks in promoting crypto exactly
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Social media platform have missed opportunities to promote cryptocurrency in a more meaningful way, social media platform could have done more to educate users about the benefits and risk of cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through partnership with reputable organizations, educational content, and influencer campaigns, social media platform could have fostered more inclusive and supportive communities around cryptocurrency.
The social media has not missed opportunity to promote Bitcoin but a lot of people there are the ones making it to look so because if you check all the social media in one way or another you will find a crypto community but a lot of them are not doing any publicity about the reason of the existence of the community but instead they are looking for somebody within the community to scam or mislead, so that's why a lot of people are not interested on social media learning about crypto, if not crypto awareness should have been very viral on the social media than it is now.
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Did you know that initially, you cannot talk about bitcoin in some countries which has made most people avoid much promotion of cryptocurrency on social media. It's now that bitcoin have started trending that people can come up on how to promote bitcoin in social media. However, you will only learn little about bitcoin from them because they might lack the knowledge compared to when you are in the bitcoin community that was purposely created to teach people about bitcoin. Social media cannot give out what they don't have.
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I must say that social media has played a great role in making crypto go viral, but we also should note that things of this nature are being taken advantage of by people for their interest as it is happening now. Infuencers, celebrities, etc, have taken advantage of the situation to only do more of the hype than educating their followers and supporter base all about cryptocurrency but are just bent on taking advantage of the multitude they already gathered for their monetary gains. But all the same, the knowledge of crypto is still getting to the wider audience day to day, so the name is not a new thing anymore, and anybody who hears it would do their findings to know more about it and how it works.
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Social media has contributed, yes, to the growth of cryptocurrency but probably has not done enough because the discussions on social media are usually very distracting and are things that are usually not very serious concerning social life.
They're actually people who are talking about cryptocurrency, but it is only those who are interested in cryptocurrency on social media that are actually seeing these persons. Making discussions about cryptocurrency something general in these social media platforms can become boring to some individuals.
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but social media platforms are not the ones responsible for promoting cryptocurrencies they do not exist for crypto so we can't expect for them to promote crypto it should be us that should be promoting crypto projects social media platforms are merely tools for us to use
I share the same sentiment. I don't think social media or any platform has an obligation to promote crypto. They're just a tool in the end and the way people use it is what matters. Of course there are exceptions like actively lower scams or phishing, but they need to do that because it's on their own interest to make sure the platform lives long enough. So, what we lack is helpful influencers or community members who educate people. It doesn't help that most people like to search for the latest trend to make a profit instead of learning the details about crypto.
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Social media has contributed, yes, to the growth of cryptocurrency but probably has not done enough because the discussions on social media are usually very distracting and are things that are usually not very serious concerning social life.
They're actually people who are talking about cryptocurrency, but it is only those who are interested in cryptocurrency on social media that are actually seeing these persons. Making discussions about cryptocurrency something general in these social media platforms can become boring to some individuals.
Obviously, you could express a best opinion in your comment. I am also agree with your comment, we know that social media is one of the best source for spread any special news. We also saw that social media also spread cryptocurrency news in the worldwide. In this reason many of the people could understand easily crypto news quickly. I think that it also be a best process for knowing crypto currency related issues in cryptocurrency world. So i think that social media is also bless for us, because it spread cryptocurrency news easily among the general people.
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Of course, social media is a very good medium for crypto promotion. Social media is used by almost all internet users, so it is very easy to make anything visible to everyone. Crypto promotion is one of them. With the Boost option in mind, paid promotion options on social media, promoting any product or service has become much easier and potential. Gambling promotion is especially widespread on social media.
That’s very true, people are really getting to know about products or services that can be beneficial to us such as crypto and all that but we should be careful and makes our research very much to avoid being scam by fraudsters, because on social media, there are real and also those who impersonate to be what they are only to lure people in order to scam them, and if one is not careful, hopefully they will fall into their trap, that is why we should be very very careful about anything we see on social media either by advertising or any other way but we should also make our own research to be at the saver side.
But getting to know both altcoinstalk and bitcointalk helps to know more about crypto in a lane man language, which really help us to understand and know more about crypto, it also prevent people not to fall into the hands of fraudsters.
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Of course, social media is a very good medium for crypto promotion. Social media is used by almost all internet users, so it is very easy to make anything visible to everyone. Crypto promotion is one of them. With the Boost option in mind, paid promotion options on social media, promoting any product or service has become much easier and potential. Gambling promotion is especially widespread on social media.
That’s very true, people are really getting to know about products or services that can be beneficial to us such as crypto and all that but we should be careful and makes our research very much to avoid being scam by fraudsters, because on social media, there are real and also those who impersonate to be what they are only to lure people in order to scam them, and if one is not careful, hopefully they will fall into their trap, that is why we should be very very careful about anything we see on social media either by advertising or any other way but we should also make our own research to be at the saver side.
But getting to know both altcoinstalk and bitcointalk helps to know more about crypto in a lane man language, which really help us to understand and know more about crypto, it also prevent people not to fall into the hands of fraudsters.
Social medis isn't the best place to learn crypto because the don't have the better knowledge up to crypto forum members. Like you said, social media is a place of scam and you might end up falling into the wrong hands and get scammed. This is another reason why you don't need to trust anyone that you see on social media. You can also be given wrong informations on cryptocurrency.
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When you say social media has not done enough to promote cryptocurrency, the first question come to mind was who will do that. It is only the concern individuals. And who are the concern individuals. The investors and traders who needs more participants in their platforms. And the social media platforms creators can't do that if they are not crypto oriented. And company like Bybit, Bitget, Binance and other cryptocurrencies exchange should do the promotions on social media so people can use their services. And as it is now it is the scammers that make more promotions than other individuals in the social media.
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Social media platforms have spread the word about cryptocurrency. But how blockchain works has not been mentioned. Because if you are interested in investing in the cryptocurrency market, then you need to see through which network you are interested in investing. So the discussion about social media platforms and networks should be mentioned. A platform leads the promotion and mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency and plays its own role.
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Without a doubt, yes! Every time I visit social media sites like Facebook, most of the ads that I see is related to gambling, exchanges, trading platforms, basically anything involving crypto. I believe that while social media has done its part in promoting crypto, when it comes to crypto education, their progress is zero. The only place I found helpful content on the internet was YouTube or some random sites with guide...
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Without a doubt, yes! Every time I visit social media sites like Facebook, most of the ads that I see is related to gambling, exchanges, trading platforms, basically anything involving crypto. I believe that while social media has done its part in promoting crypto, when it comes to crypto education, their progress is zero. The only place I found helpful content on the internet was YouTube or some random sites with guide...
There is no better marketing platform than social media these days, where you can reach a lot of people very quickly. Most smartphone users visit social media at least once a day. So of course, social media is a good way to promote crypto.
Not just cryptocurrency, but all companies are currently spending a lot of money on digital marketing or social media marketing because they are capable of delivering much better results.
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Social media platform have missed opportunities to promote cryptocurrency in a more meaningful way, social media platform could have done more to educate users about the benefits and risk of cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through partnership with reputable organizations, educational content, and influencer campaigns, social media platform could have fostered more inclusive and supportive communities around cryptocurrency. This could have been achieved through feature like community forum, thank God for altcoinforum and bitcointalk, live streaming and events. By taking more strategic approach, social media platform can play a more meaningful in promoting cryptocurrency and driving mainstream adoption.
We were able to come this far even without social media playing an active role in publicising and educating people about cryptocurrency. Social media has its own disadvantages and I feel they wouldn’t have done more good than we have seen and achieved over the years without them actively involved in the progress cryptocurrency has come this far.
Community engagement is very important and for the likes of the Bitcoin enthusiasts that were there in the early days, they tried their best to share the best they can about cryptocurrency and here we are today not needing the help of an influencer to actually sell out what Bitcoin is actually, it has done it by itself and that something commendable for a technology almost everyone despise in its early days of invention.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency now stand far tall that it doesn’t needs the adverts of the people to sell itself, it has achieved the success foreseen by its early creators and adopters, so it can confidently stand on its own and sell itself now.
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Without a doubt, yes! Every time I visit social media sites like Facebook, most of the ads that I see is related to gambling, exchanges, trading platforms, basically anything involving crypto. I believe that while social media has done its part in promoting crypto, when it comes to crypto education, their progress is zero. The only place I found helpful content on the internet was YouTube or some random sites with guide...
The reason why I also think some of the social media progress in terms of crypto education is zero is because those handling the accounts are not that knowledgeable in crypto; there are some OGs who were once active on some social media constantly educating people about crypto but now most of the accounts you see that are crypto related are either shilling a fake token and most people getting into crypto newly tend not to get sound information from this so called crypto influencers.
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Without a doubt, yes! Every time I visit social media sites like Facebook, most of the ads that I see is related to gambling, exchanges, trading platforms, basically anything involving crypto. I believe that while social media has done its part in promoting crypto, when it comes to crypto education, their progress is zero. The only place I found helpful content on the internet was YouTube or some random sites with guide...
There is no better marketing platform than social media these days, where you can reach a lot of people very quickly. Most smartphone users visit social media at least once a day. So of course, social media is a good way to promote crypto.
Not just cryptocurrency, but all companies are currently spending a lot of money on digital marketing or social media marketing because they are capable of delivering much better results.
You are right to have said that social media is a good marketing platform, and to be frank, many crypto projects have thrived on social media, and till this moment, projects have been making use of the social media platform to announce their launch and other activities they have at hand for the masses to participate in. So if anybody says social media has not been good for publicity, then ask the person how he got to know about projects and other information as it bothers crypto and updates and wait for their response.
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You can open an account on any social media platform and start the promotion, there are a lot of people that are paid to promote coins and services on different social media platforms. I think it is better to get crypto information from crypto forums like this one, rather than on social media.
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You can open an account on any social media platform and start the promotion, there are a lot of people that are paid to promote coins and services on different social media platforms. I think it is better to get crypto information from crypto forums like this one, rather than on social media.
As I said previously, social medias are only suitable for promotions and marketing sector, there platforms are designed in that way. But as for education regarding crypto, it's filled with fake news, false informations, scammers spammers etc. For me Youtube and the forums has been the most helpful. Don't forget we now have AI likes chatgpt, deepseek, copilot.. ;)
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You can open an account on any social media platform and start the promotion, there are a lot of people that are paid to promote coins and services on different social media platforms. I think it is better to get crypto information from crypto forums like this one, rather than on social media.
Yes i also think social media is most powerful platform promote cryptocurrency and other products. Now a days every sector using social media to promote their products mainly cryptocurrency. So we can easily tell social media is most popular now a days to promote coins and others currency.
X,Facebook, YouTube, Instagram are mainly using for Promotion. But it has also some negative site like, many fake news also occurred from here. Because there has no any restrictions. But overall thinking we can tell social media is strong platform to promote coins and others currency.
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You can open an account on any social media platform and start the promotion, there are a lot of people that are paid to promote coins and services on different social media platforms. I think it is better to get crypto information from crypto forums like this one, rather than on social media.
Yes i also think social media is most powerful platform promote cryptocurrency and other products. Now a days every sector using social media to promote their products mainly cryptocurrency. So we can easily tell social media is most popular now a days to promote coins and others currency.
X,Facebook, YouTube, Instagram are mainly using for Promotion. But it has also some negative site like, many fake news also occurred from here. Because there has no any restrictions. But overall thinking we can tell social media is strong platform to promote coins and others currency.
In as much that social media is the best platform for promoting cryptocurrencies, how great would it have been if it was not taken over by crypto scammers and selfish influencers but instead taken over by influencers who truly have their community in mind and take it as their responsibility to teach their followers about crypto.
It would have been better but instead everyone wants to make as much money as they can at the expense of their community trust.
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It would have been better but instead everyone wants to make as much money as they can at the expense of their community trust.
That is what it is, it is difficult to find people who will grow their channel and page to offer free services. These influencers grow their channel so that they can get paid to do promotions, there is nothing wrong in that anyway, what i don't like is when they advertise certain scam projects without even spending a minute to look closely at it. It is just about the money, not about the followers who 'trust' them, even though they shouldn't.
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what i don't like is when they advertise certain scam projects without even spending a minute to look closely at it. It is just about the money, not about the followers who 'trust' them, even though they shouldn't.
Do influencers like this still exist? As far as I know, most of them have a short life if they don't bother with fact-checking the projects they're promoting. Even if they got paid $10k or more from doing that, a simple reasoning would lead them to know that the risk outweighs the cost. The last influencer who kept retweeting left and right in my memory is McAfee. Most of them move to sharing long-term farming projects with dislcaimers everywhere nowadays (which is slightly better than making a Telegram channel and leaving it to die).
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But the known social media have a different approach regarding cryptocurrencies. Facebook has banned all crypto ads before because of the ICO scams but they have reverted that decision. And it's true that we're thankful that we've found the crypto forums that have been a good outlet to let other people know about cryptocurrencies and it continues to provide good news and learnings that everyone can access freely, anytime conveniently.
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Social media platforms don’t necessarily have an interest in cryptocurrencies, as seen by other social media companies, but they want to have their own. I think that’s their goal, and it is not what cryptocurrencies are for, in my opinion. I know they are not responsible, but that’s how it is. They wouldn’t do anything about it.
This means they would not have to exert any effort to promote anything.
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I don't think so; forums like Bitcointalk and altcoinstalk are still the best place to promote and educate people about cryptocurrency; all that we're seeing on social media are promotions of dubious coins and ponzi-like coins.
Many of the coins being promoted on social media are airdrops, memes, and high-yield coins; it failed to educate people on how cryptocurrency works and how to properly invest in them.
Yes, you are absolutely right and if we are not careful we will be fooled by Fomo by people who promote unclear coins because there are also many cases of investment fraud in the name of crypto and many people are tempted by big results but with small capital, and forums are better than social media because with forums many people care about fraud cases and are given red tags.
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Re: Do you think social media has done enough in promoting cryptocurrency?
Well, most of the people that has access to smartphone also have access to these different social media platforms as well. I don't think that there is anybody out there that has a smartphone but doesn't have at least 1 account on any social media platforms out there. All has that's for sure.
Now since all or we can say most of the people have access to social media, that increases the number of people that will be aware that a thing called cryptocurrency is existing. Cryptocurrency is being promoted in these platforms in either a positive way, or a negative way sometimes (scams and phishing sites). Overall, social media has helped massively towards spreading the word about cryptocurrency, and I expect it to be the same as we are in an era where it's all digital.
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Social media platforms are always the best medium for promoting crypto because there is a large presence of people here, so a project can be quickly brought to everyone. You may have seen that the hype of a project quickly goes to everyone through these social media platforms. Moreover, the post is reached quickly through giveaway events. Big crypto investors create various live events and provide trading signals. Millions of posts about crypto are created every day through Twitter media, so if you want to keep up with crypto it is important to be active with your social account.
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Social media has spread the word about crypto but doesn't educate the users on how it works, it only spread about how people can make money out of it and get rich quick.
The social media posts of some users doesn't even make users learn about blockchain and how it works. And some posts are only about trading and the markets,
Very true. My advice then is, if you have plans of going deeper into the world of cryptocurrency and how the blockchain operates and functions, then its ok to have the social media as a kickoff point but make effort to carry out personal research with books or possibly take a course because there is a limit to which the social media can teach you about crypto as it can also misguide you regarding about the same.
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Social media platforms are always the best medium for promoting crypto because there is a large presence of people here, so a project can be quickly brought to everyone. You may have seen that the hype of a project quickly goes to everyone through these social media platforms. Moreover, the post is reached quickly through giveaway events. Big crypto investors create various live events and provide trading signals. Millions of posts about crypto are created every day through Twitter media, so if you want to keep up with crypto it is important to be active with your social account.
Yeah, true that. Social media is the main way to spread the word about any crypto project. So many people are online every day if something new drops, it can blow up fast. Giveaways and live events also help, especially when big names in crypto are involved. Platforms like Twitter are full of crypto posts non-stop, so if you wanna stay in the loop, being active on social media really helps.
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Social media platforms are always the best medium for promoting crypto because there is a large presence of people here, so a project can be quickly brought to everyone. You may have seen that the hype of a project quickly goes to everyone through these social media platforms. Moreover, the post is reached quickly through giveaway events. Big crypto investors create various live events and provide trading signals. Millions of posts about crypto are created every day through Twitter media, so if you want to keep up with crypto it is important to be active with your social account.
In the current world, social media has turned out to be among the essential tools applied in the crypto world, particularly in the communication aspect. In this regard, due to the members being active in instruments like the social media, information relating to a new project or a technological advancement that may come up, can easily circulate. The benefit in this case is that the project record is community driven and the presence of the star agents which immediately disseminate the news. The independence of the social media reporting in the crypto world does not only make the processing of information faster but also lets having a direct access to realión time feeds from numerous sources.
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It would have been better but instead everyone wants to make as much money as they can at the expense of their community trust.
That is what it is, it is difficult to find people who will grow their channel and page to offer free services. These influencers grow their channel so that they can get paid to do promotions, there is nothing wrong in that anyway, what i don't like is when they advertise certain scam projects without even spending a minute to look closely at it. It is just about the money, not about the followers who 'trust' them, even though they shouldn't.
One thing we should know is that one of the major aims of these social media influencers is to grow their social media accounts, and after that ,they begin to monetize the whole process, which is why you see them get more endorsement from big brands to serve as their ambassadors and sometimes representatives because of their large followership which they can be able to influence to patronise a particular brand.
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From my observation about the influence of social media on crypto, it is only as a promotional tool and update on the development of the projects they publish, for influencers there is also nothing specific that provides introductory education about what crypto is for beginners, most of them only follow fomo, providing information on projects that are currently fomo, so it is true that 95% of social media platforms are only for promoting their projects and it is efficient regardless of whether the project is successful or not, but their promotion is optimal