Ripple CTO, David Schwartz, reported that his YouTube channel was suspended on April 29. This news comes several days afterwards his company filed a lawsuit against the social media platform, although the two events may not be related.

"Weirdly, YouTube just decided to append my channel (SJoelKatz) for impersonation," Schwartz said in a Tweet. "I wonder who they think I was impersonating."

The suspension comes after Ripple'south lawsuit against YouTube

The CTO's YouTube suspension occurred roughly eight days after his company, Ripple Labs, and company CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, filed a legal claim against the social video platform.

The lawsuit stated that YouTube did not remove impersonators and nefarious parties advertising false giveaways of XRP, the crypto asset associated with the company.

Such scams accept plagued the crypto industry for years, in i class or another. The scams frequently include urging the public to ship some corporeality of cryptocurrency, with the promise of receiving a larger corporeality in return.

Schwartz's suspension comes during YouTube's crypto aqueduct banning spree

Over the past several months, YouTube has banned a number of high-profile crypto YouTubers and videos, seemingly in waves. The platform afterwards restored many of the channels, sometimes subsequently only i 24-hour interval of downtime. The problem, withal, notwithstanding reportedly persists.

It is unclear whether the ban has anything to practise with Ripple's recent lawsuit. Cointelegraph reached out to Schwartz and YouTube for annotate, but received no response as of printing time.

In light of the contempo bans, Cointelegraph recently reported on a number of decentralized social video platform alternatives.