Is X Banning Crypto Posts? Elon Musk’s Social Media Becomes Hostile to CT

Ki Young Ju, CEO of on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant, shared a chart showing a spike to 7.75 million “crypto”-related posts on X on Jan. 9

The data, sourced from CryptoQuant’s Radar tool, indicates a 1,224% increase in bot activity over prior days

Yes, there is significant discussion in the crypto community on X that crypto-related posts are experiencing reduced visibility, throttling, or effective “shadowbanning,” which is algorithmic suppression.

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. pic.twitter.com/cUKIM5uXL6

— Julio Moreno (@jjcmoreno) January 10, 2026

According to Ju, the explosion of AI-generated bot spam is flooding X with crypto posts. This flood forces X’s algorithm to treat the entire “crypto” topic as spammy

X addressing Crypto Twitter’s demise

Nikita Bier, the head of product at X, recently stated that crypto Twitter (CT) is dying because of user behavior.

Some users tend to tweet “GM” (Good Morning) hundreds of times, and engage constantly to stay relevant.

The average user only scrolls enough to see 20–30 posts per day.

Hence, they will not pay attention to “GM,” “WAGMI,” “LFG,” and other posts that are simply meant to “farm engagement.”

According to Bier, every time you post a low-effort reply, you are “spending” one of those rare slots in your followers’ feeds.

Yet, many X users are complaining about being unfairly targeted by the algorithm.

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

X’s algorithm seems to deprioritize posts containing common crypto signals of the likes of tickers ($BTC/$ETH) or hype phrases (“100x,” “altseason”).

Users report massive reach drops. Educational threads or chart posts often cap at 300–800 views.

This is likely due to the December 2025 algorithm update that was implemented to fight against spam and bots.

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