Now listen here, because this is a proper pickle! A chap named Ki Young Ju – sounds like a sneeze, doesn’t it? – from a firm called CryptoQuant (which sounds suspiciously like something you’d find in a science lab) noticed a whopping 7.75 million “crypto” posts on X (formerly known as the bird site, remember?). Seven. Million. It’s enough to make your head spin like a top!
Turns out, this wasn’t all sensible people discussing sensible things. Oh no. A ridiculous 1,224% increase in 🤖 BOT ACTIVITY 🤖 had clogged up the works. Honestly, bots! They’re worse than wasps at a picnic.
And guess what? The clever Crypto Twitter lot reckon X is quietly giving their posts the cold shoulder. A bit of algorithmic suppression, they call it. Shadowbanning, if you want to sound important. It’s like X is saying, “Oh, crypto again? Don’t bother me.” 😤
A miner from the Satoshi era moved 2K Bitcoin today, the first time this happens since November 2024, when Bitcoin was at ~$91K.
Historically, Satoshi-era miners move their Bitcoin at key inflection points.
– Julio Moreno (@jjcmoreno) January 10, 2026
According to Mr. Ju, this explosion of robot-written rubbish is making X’s algorithm think everything crypto-related is a bit whiffy. It’s like if you fill your bath with bubblegum, everything in the water starts to… well, feel sticky.
X’s Grumpy Thoughts on Crypto Twitter
Now, here’s where it gets even more bonkers. A fellow named Nikita Bier, who seems to be in charge of fiddling with buttons at X, declared that Crypto Twitter is… dying. Dying, I tell you! Apparently, some users spend all day shouting “GM” (Good Morning) hundreds of times, trying to be popular. A terribly sad sight, really. 🙄
The average person, you see, only bothers to scroll through 20-30 posts a day. They haven’t got time for endless “GM”, “WAGMI”, and “LFG”. It’s all just “engagement farming” – a dreadful term, isn’t it? – like trying to grow vegetables on concrete.
Mr. Bier says every pointless reply you post STEALS a valuable slot in your followers’ feeds. Think of it like chocolate biscuits – you only have so much room for them! 🍪
But naturally, Crypto Twitter is howling with protest. They reckon they’re being unfairly picked on.
They’ve been openly suppressing CT content, forgetting that it’s a large niche that keeps X alive
I hope the team sees this and give crypto accounts their reach back. It’s not a great algorithm to scroll rn– van00sa (@van00sa) January 10, 2026
Nikita had a failed experiment advising @Solana with @Pasternak’s BelieveApp dumpster fire, so now he is taking it personal by throttling all of CT.
Someone had to say it.
– curb.sol (@CryptoCurb) January 11, 2026
It seems X’s algorithm is giving the side-eye to anything with crypto symbols ($BTC/$ETH) or overly enthusiastic phrases like “100x” or “altseason”. Posts are getting fewer and fewer eyeballs. A perfectly good chart or explanation barely gets 300-800 views! It’s simply appalling.
This mess all started with an update in December 2025, designed to squash spam and bots. A noble cause, to be sure, but it seems they’ve accidentally squashed a fair bit of everything else too. Honestly, sometimes the grown-ups just don’t know what they’re doing, do they? 🤷♀️
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