Venezuela Reportedly Blocking Bitcoin Websites
CANTV, a government-controlled Venezuelan telecommunication company, has reportedly launched a censorship program against Bitcoin websites. According to a report of NewsBTC Latin America, Bitcoin users in Venezuela are reportedly facing issues while trying to access a number of popular digital currency websites, including Blockchain.info, CoinDesk, Telegram, SurBitcoin, Coinbase, and many others. The censorship program hasn't even spared the Bitcoin-related pages on Wikipedia, the world's leading online information source. They are reported to be unavailable through CANTV's internet....
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Update: The source of the downtime seems to be an attack on a website (DolarToday) which was using CloudFlare. As a result, multiple sites, including bitcoin sites, were unavailable for hours earlier today. According to multiple complaints from Bitcoin users within Venezuela, the government of Venezuela has started blocking several known Bitcoin websites. The affected websites include Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin news sites, and also Bitcoin mining sites. The major ISP in Venezuela is CANTV, who has previously done similar censorship in the country. Like last time, the Venezuelan ISP has....
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A number of bitcoin websites experienced downtime today over a period of roughly four hours due to what appears to be a DNS server error at a major Internet service provider (ISP). Affected websites included local Latin American exchanges such as BlinkTrade, BitInka and SurBTC, as well as larger international startups such as Bitstamp, Blockchain, BTC-e and Coinbase. Other outlets such as Bitcoin.org and LocalBitcoins remained accessible during this time, and at press time, all websites said to have been affected were once again online. However, a video provided to CoinDesk by local....
CANTV, Venezuela's state-owned and largest Internet service provider, has blocked, as of this morning, many Bitcoin-related domain names, websites and mining pools, according to Redditor rdymac. Among those confirmed to be blocked by the redditor are: coindesk.com; blockchain.info; blinktrade.com; surbitcoin.com; miningrigrentals.com; nicehash.com; btc-e.com; coinapult.com; coinbase.com. Venezuela's two local exchanges have also been blocked by CANTV, according to the redditor. The ISP is CANTV, managed by the institution CONATEL, and is very well known by their blockades to any website....
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