Great Firewall of China Blocks Bitcointalk.org
Hours ago, Bitcoin Forum and Bitcoin Subreddit moderator, Theymos, posted to inform everyone that Bitcointalk.org had been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. From all over China, with the exception of Shanghai, Bitcoiners are reporting that Bitcointalk.org is now blocked. No official explanation for the block has been given, though speculation will fly. Chinese Bitcoiners should use https://bitcointa.lk/ or research methods to bypass the Great Firewall of China. Greatfirewallofchina.org is a website where you can query a website's accessibility from several locations within China. As....
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A popular bitcoin-related discussion forum on the web has apparently been blocked by China's Great Firewall (also known as the Great Firewall of China, of course). BitcoinTalk.org has stood for years as the predominant place for bitcoin conversation on the internet, but if this news is proven, our friends in China won't have access unless they bypass their government's censorship. The news came from BitcoinTalk.org's administrator, known on the web as Theymos. He posted to social sharing website Reddit.com sharing the news, which has no doubt sprouted chatter on the matter. His submission....
Bitcointalk.org, the Bitcoin Forum, is currently offline with the official explanation being a DOS attack. In the past, Bitcointalk.org has faced hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and DDOS. According to isitdownrightnow, a service that tells you the status of websites worldwide, bitcointalk.org has been down since at least 17:00 PT. This is corroborated by the first reports on twitter of the bitcointalk.org outage: is @bitcointalk forum down? - digit (@_digit_) November 14, 2014. @bitcointalk is down! - Tetcoin (@Tetcoin) November 14, 2014. In the meantime, users can use Bitcointa.lk,....
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