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

[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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