X Admits Crypto Spam Problem is Structural, Not Solvable

X's Head of Product Nikita Bier has made a surprising admission about the platform's struggle with crypto spam. In a recent post, Bier claimed that 80% of crypto activity is driven by bots, making it impossible to fix the spam problem on X.

This assertion marks a shift in tone from previous promises to eliminate crypto spam through technical measures. Just last March, Bier had stated that the financial incentive to spam on X would decline enormously and soon be negative, but now he suggests that the issue is too deeply embedded in crypto's ecosystem for any platform to solve.

The concession has sparked a debate within the crypto industry, with Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko calling X 'horrible' yet acknowledging that open threads on the platform remain the best available option for public crypto communication. The issue has been highlighted by recent security concerns, including the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit which used social engineering rather than code vulnerabilities.