Nikita Bier (니키타 비어), X’s head of product, said it would be difficult to solve the problem of spam replies posted on cryptocurrency accounts with technology alone.

Bier recently said there is no technology in the world to solve spam replies on cryptocurrency accounts, blockchain outlet BeInCrypto reported on Saturday. He said 80 percent of crypto activity could be bots. He presented a “second-degree reply” function as effectively the only countermeasure.

The function blocks participation by unrelated accounts, instead of setting the allowed range for replies from direct followers to followers of followers. X is said to be testing the function for Premium+ subscribers.

The remarks suggest that X’s stance on tackling spam by focusing on technical detection and suppression is being shaken. Bier said as recently as March that the economic incentive for spam would soon disappear, but has recently shifted his position, saying it is hard to distinguish bots from real users at scale with tools and algorithms alone.

Over the past year, X has stepped up its response by removing about 1.7 million spam bot accounts and introducing a “dislike” button to filter low-quality replies. In January 2026, it also changed its developer API policy and withdrew access rights, targeting a post-reward service called the InfoFi app. Bier previously pointed out that those apps distributed large volumes of AI-generated content and reply spam.

Industry complaints are also continuing. Anatoly Yakovenko (아나톨리 야코벤코), Solana’s co-founder, called X a “terrible website” but said its communication structure based on public threads is “the best of the bad options”. It shows a reality in which there is no clear platform to replace it despite serious spam and impersonation problems.

BeInCrypto also mentioned a recent attack case involving Drift Protocol, known to be worth about $285 million. The incident involved administrator privileges being stolen through social engineering rather than a code vulnerability, showing that an environment in which contact from outside itself acts as a security risk is expanding.

If the method of addressing spam shifts from detection to restricting access, X is expected to face the task of finding a new balance between openness in public communication and spam suppression.