I heard that X is now blocking the first posts that mention cryptocurrency. It’s kind of a new protection against hacked accounts, which are then used for scam schemes. It turns out that if you want to share something about crypto for the first time, the system will stop the post and ask for verification. It sounds reasonable in principle—hackers constantly take over legitimate accounts and start phishing people there, advertising fake tokens, all sorts of fake giveaways. But I’m curious how this will affect regular users. If I want to simply discuss criptovalute with friends for the first time, I’ll have to jump through hoops with verification. According to the guys from X, this should make hacked accounts less useful to scammers. Plus, they mentioned that phishing emails often slip past email filters, so this is an additional layer of protection. The measure isn’t bad, but we’ll see how it works in practice. Maybe it will really reduce the number of scammers, or maybe it will just slow down legitimate users.