How to stop crypto spam on X
To cut crypto spam on X, mute the words it relies on (like “airdrop” and “presale”), turn on the quality filter for notifications, and block and report the accounts. None of these stops it completely, because spam changes its wording and its accounts faster than you can mute them.
Updated November 2, 2026You’re not alone: in April 2026, X’s head of product said crypto had become the most-muted topic on the platform.
1. Mute the words crypto spam uses
- On a computer, click More in the menu on the left, then Settings and privacy. In the app, tap your profile picture, then Settings and privacy.
- Open Privacy and safety, then Mute and block, then Muted words.
- Tap the +, add a word, phrase or hashtag, choose where and for how long, and save.
Good candidates: airdrop, presale, memecoin, 100x, whitelist, #crypto. If friends talk about crypto and you still want their posts, choose to mute words only from people you don’t follow. Our guide to muting words on X has more detail.
2. Filter your notifications
In Settings and privacy, open Notifications, then Filters.
- Turn on the Quality filter. It hides lower-quality notifications, such as duplicate or automated posts, but never filters people you follow or accounts you’ve recently interacted with.
- There are also options to mute notifications from accounts you don’t follow that are new or still have the default profile photo.
3. Block and report
On a spam post, click the three dots (⋯):
- Block the account, so it can’t reply to your posts or follow you.
- Choose Report post and pick the spam option. X reviews reports. Reporting doesn’t remove the account straight away, but it helps.
To make an account disappear from your timeline without blocking, choose Mute instead. See how to mute someone on X.
4. Limit who can reply to you
If spam bots pile into your own replies, set who can reply when you write a post: tap Everyone can reply under the text box and choose a narrower option, like Accounts you follow or Only accounts you mention. On a reply that’s already there, open its three dots and choose Hide reply.
5. If you pay for Premium: snooze crypto
Since April 2026, Premium subscribers can snooze a topic, crypto included, on the For you tab for 24 hours. It’s a break, not a fix.
Why it keeps coming back
- The wording changes. Spam swaps in new slang, misspellings and emoji as soon as the old words get muted.
- The pitch is often an image. A chart, a “giveaway” graphic or a screenshot of a wallet has no words for X to match.
- New accounts every day. Blocking and reporting work one account at a time.
- It lives in the replies. Spam crowds under popular posts, where you didn’t choose who shows up.
- Muting “Bitcoin” mutes the news too. Word lists can’t tell a scam from a headline you wanted to read.
Filter the hype, not the word
Remedy is a Chrome extension with a built-in crypto hype topic. It reads each post as it loads and removes the ones hyping coins, tokens and giveaways from your X timeline, search results and replies, whatever words they use. You can add your own words too, like “no NFT shilling”.
On Plus, it checks images and video frames too, so the promo graphics and chart screenshots go as well. The popup lists everything it took out. It works on a computer, in Chrome, and on Reddit, YouTube and other sites.
Questions
Does muting “crypto” stop crypto spam on X?
It hides posts that contain “crypto” or #crypto from your Home timeline and notifications. Spam that uses other words, or puts its pitch in an image, still gets through.
What does X’s quality filter do?
It filters lower-quality notifications, such as duplicate or automated posts. It doesn’t filter notifications from people you follow or accounts you’ve recently interacted with.
Does reporting spam on X get the account removed?
Not automatically. X reviews the report, and in the meantime the reported post is replaced, for you, with a notice that you reported it.