Russia blacklists official Bitcoin websites

Citing a court ruling in the country from September, Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked five websites containing resources and information on Bitcoin, including the Bitcoin Foundation’s Bitcoin.org.

A Russia Today article reports that Roskomnadzor has also banned “Russian-language forum btcsec.com, Wikipedia-style information site bitcoin.it, Russian bitcoin community coinspot.io as well as exchange service indacoin.com.”

Even Bitcoin’s proponents don’t see Bitcoin surviving in Russia. Igor Chepkasov, chairman of the Crypto Currencies Foundation of Russia, told CoinDesk that the censorship of Bitcoin information on the country’s public internet, among other measures taken against the technology, “is a dress rehearsal for the prohibition of Bitcoin in Russia.”

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