Russia Blacklists Another Bitcoin Website, but BitNovosti Finds Workaround

Russia Blacklists Another Bitcoin Website, but BitNovosti Finds Workaround

Despite the recent court ruling that overturned a previous decision to block access to at least five Bitcoin websites, Russia’s supervision agency has blacklisted one of the country’s most popular Bitcoin-related websites. On May 27, Russia’s Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor) effectively blocked access to one of Russia’s most popular Bitcoin news websites, BitNovosti.com. When attempting to access the domain within the country, users are instead met with the following message from the authorities: “This site has been blocked by order....


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