Russian Authorities Blacklist 5 Bitcoin-Related Websites
[Update: The number of blocked sites now totals seven. One of these sites is reported to be bitcoinconf.ru] The Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor in Russian) has blacklisted five Bitcoin-related websites. Roskomnadzor has effectively blocked access to Bitcoin.org – an online community of cryptocurrency users and specialists supported by the Bitcoin Foundation - entering it into a registry of prohibited websites despite the site not having any user-submitted content. “Given the remoteness of the [the Ural, Sverdlovsk region] region and....
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