Russia blocks OKX website for alleged unreliable financial information: Reports
The cryptocurrency exchange’s website was said to contain information about pyramid schemes, although no details were given. Similar bans have been imposed before. The website of crypto exchange OKX was blocked in Russia by the state media monitoring service Roskomnadzor on Oct. 4. The agency told the TASS news agency that the website was blocked at “the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the dissemination of unreliable socially significant information of a financial nature.”Roskomnadzor told local news outlet RBC that OKX had “published information related to the activities of....
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