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Groups of projects like Monero, EOS and Litecoin lost more than 50% of its members.Groups of Ripple and EOS came to have over 50,000 members in Telegram.The popularity of the projects of cryptocurrencies seems to be falling. At least, so it is in the case of the messaging network Telegram, where groups associated to this type of projects have seen a clear drop in the number of members.So a list posted on Twitter by the bitcoiner @Aztek_btc. The comparison presented by this list contrasts the number of members of various groups, in June 2018, November 2019, and today —April 2020—.The list includes groups of projects cryptocurrencies that are in the top 20 according to their market capitalization. Among them, stands out litecoin (LTC), whose group happened to have more than 32,000 members in June 2018, to exceed by little the 10,000 currently. In total, the downfall to this group was more than 67% in that period.Two other groups that lost more than 20,000 members in these little less than 2 years. In the case of EOS, the group had more than 55,000 registered users and now has only 23.483. The group of Ripple, for its part, lost more than 30,000 subscribers; going 64.525 to 23.399, according to the list presented by @Aztek_btc.In percentage terms, the groups with a larger drop in subscribers belonging to the trading. Precisely, the list shows the groups of traders of cryptocurrencies @coinfarm, @thecoinfarm and @Whaleclub with a loss of users to more than 70%.The groups Whaleclub, CoinFarm and TheCoinFarm are those that have lost members, surpassing the resignation of over 70,000 contacts. Source: @Aztek_BTCOtros projects present in the list are Monero, Sia, Ethereum Classic, Stellar Lumens and Decred. Of them all, the latter had the smallest decline in percentage terms, with 26,13% less than between 2018 and the present.However, among the comments to the tweet, some of the postures contradict the data provided on this list. For example, the CEO of Atomic Wallet, Konstantin Gladych claimed that makes up some of the groups in that network and messaging has seen growth in cases such as Cardano or Tezos.
Social networks, censorship, and cryptocurrencies
In social networks and search engines, the reality of the content associated with the world of cryptocurrencies are not the same. While in the Telegram seems to abate the interest, the already near-halving of Bitcoin has reached a ceiling of interest in global searches of Google.On the other hand, YouTube continues its campaign to delete accounts that are dedicated to creating content about cryptocurrencies. The more recent cases are those of the analyst of markets, Tone Vays, and the account of education BTC Sessions, reported this Friday Breaking News.Meanwhile, the community of enthusiasts of the cryptocurrencies in Twitter positioned itself against the recent updates of the privacy policy of that network. Among these changes, Twitter has removed the option that allowed users to avoid the sale of their data for part of the platform.