Why Is Latvia Blocking the BitPay Blog?
On Thursday, I saw the following warning from the Latvian Lotteries and Gambling Supervision Inspection (IUAUI) when I tried to access the BitPay blog from my laptop in Riga. The BitPay home page displayed normally; just the blog was blocked. So, I reached out to a few other people in Riga, and no one else reported that the site was blocked for them. Even my phone, which has a local SIM and connects to a local 3G network, displays the site. “Lotteries and gambling supervisory inspection on the base of Sections 13.1 and 19 of Electronic Communications Law beginning August 1, 2014 have....
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