3 Bitcoin-related websites blocked in Russia, including bitcoin.org

Anton Nesterov komachi at openmailbox.org
Tue Jan 13 13:20:40 PST 2015


Full judgment is avalable, thanks to Russian Pirate Party
http://www.slideshare.net/temychk/bitcoin-43468448 All in all, there is
7 websites, two others is bitcoinconf.ru and hashbitcoin.ru. That two
addresses not blocked (yet?), but presented in the judgment. One of them
shows just parked domain page, the other one is a website of Russian
Bitcoin conference set to 2 April 2015 in Moscow.

Judgment basically says it's illegal to use Bitcoin because the only one
currency in Russia is ruble, and Bitcoin is a money surrogate, which is
prohibited by Russian law, and the law allow courts to prohibit
distribution of any information in Russia.

For reason, it says that: "Free distribution of information about
electronic currency causes active use of cryptocurrencies for drug,
arms, and forgery dealing and other criminal activity. These facts, as
well as ability to uncontrollable transboundary money transfer followed
by cashing in, are hight-risk approaches for potential using
cryptocurrencies in schemes for legalization (money laundering) incomes
from criminal activity, and the financing of the terrorism."


http://rublacklist.net/9833/

Anton Nesterov:
> coinspot.io and indacoin.com was blocked too, so it's 5 websites.
> 
> Quote from the judgment posted by RKN:
> 
> "As article 27 of Federal law "On Central bank of Russian Federation"
> says, official monetary unit (currency) of Russian Federation is ruble.
> Introduction others monetary units and issuing money surrogates on the
> territory of Russia is prohibited.
> 
> Under such conditions, cryptocurrencies, including "Bitcoin", are money
> surrogates, they contribute to the rise of underground economy, and
> can't be used by citizens and entitles on the territory of Russian
> Federation"
> 
> https://vk.com/wall-76229642_16558
> 
> Anton Nesterov:
>> So today bitcoin.org (208.64.123.130), bitcoin.it (162.159.245.241,
>> 162.159.246.241) and btcsec.com (188.40.102.131 was blocked
>> country-wide, because Neviansky's court of Sverdlovsk oblast rule
>> 2-978/2014 on 30 September 2014. Text of this judgment is not known,
>> it's not on their website yet (Russian laws force courts to publish
>> their judgments on the Internet), so this is hard to say what for
>> exactly this websites was blocked. The bill that allow to block
>> Bitcoin-related websites is still a draft.
>>
>>
>> http://tjournal.ru/paper/bitcoin-org-rkn (Russian)
>>
> 
> 


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