Russia’s Blocked Bitcoin Website, Btcsec: ‘We Have No Plans to Close’

Russia’s Blocked Bitcoin Website, Btcsec: ‘We Have No Plans to Close’

Ivan Tikhonov, founder of Russia’s blocked Bitcoin website, Btcsec, goes to court to fight the ban, but expects further steps from the authorities to suppress Bitcoin activities. On January 13, Russia’s Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor) blocked the websites bitcoin.org, indacoin.com, coinspot.ru, hasbitcoin.ru, bitcoinconf.ru, bitcoin.it, and btcsec.com. Cryptocurrency Foundation Russia Chairman, Igor Chepkasov, has informed CoinTelegraph of an official online petition currently being circulated against the closures. The ban was....


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