X has suspended a cluster of high-traffic bitcoin and crypto accounts after an alleged multi-account operation was accused of republishing other creators’ material and collecting more than $250,000 through the platform’s creator revenue-sharing program over roughly two years.
The action appears to have accelerated around Aug. 18, when reports tied to the account @Vivek4real__ reached Nikita Bier, who has been involved in X’s efforts against spam and low-quality content. Bier said one person seemed to be operating more than 10 accounts and that the matter was being referred to law enforcement.
Accounts removed after reports reached X
Among the accounts identified in the suspended cluster were @Bitcoin_Teddy, @BitcoinSapiens, @Kalshibacktest, @polybacktest and @saylordocs, which was associated with Documenting Saylor. The account @Vivek4real__ reportedly had about 270,000 followers at the time of the action.
X has not publicly listed every profile it believes was linked to the alleged operator. Still, the suspensions point to a broader cleanup effort aimed at coordinated activity that the platform sees as undermining its content ecosystem.
How the alleged scheme worked
According to the allegations described in the reports, the operator’s method was to download videos and posts originally made by journalists, YouTube creators and other X users, then upload them again through larger accounts. In some cases, watermarks or other identifying marks were reportedly cropped out before reposting.
The accusation is significant because X shares revenue with eligible creators based in part on engagement with their posts. The platform changed that system in 2026 to direct more revenue toward original authors, increasing the financial benefit of making republished material look like firsthand work.
By distributing recycled posts across multiple accounts, a single operator could potentially collect very large impression totals without paying the time and cost required to produce original reporting, interviews or video content. That also puts repost-heavy accounts in direct competition with the people who created the material in the first place.
Why the case matters for creators
For smaller creators, the removal of content-farm networks could reduce competition from duplicated posts and improve their chances of receiving the reach, attribution and revenue attached to their work. The issue, however, is not confined to one account cluster.
Similar accounts are still active on the platform, leaving X with the difficult job of distinguishing between coordinated recycling operations and more legitimate forms of aggregation, commentary or fair-use publication. That makes enforcement both important and potentially contentious.
What happens next
The immediate next step on X’s side appears to be continued enforcement, as the purge does not seem to be complete. On the legal side, Bier said the case was being forwarded to law enforcement, though no public outcome from that referral has been reported.
Not everyone agreed that law enforcement should be involved. One X user argued that account suspension alone would have been enough. For now, the clearest measure of impact will be whether original creators ultimately regain a larger share of attention and revenue as X continues to remove accounts built around recycled content.
Source: news.bitcoin.com