[2015-10-01] Bitcoin Websites Blocked by Venezuelan Government

[tyz]

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.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-websites-blocked-venezuelan-government/

[SebastianJu]

Wasn't that the country with the ultra high inflation? Guess it could be seen as a honour to bitcoin when the government sees bitcoin as a threat and tries to block it.

[aigeezer]

According to Coindesk it is a DNS server issue, not a government blockage: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-websites-experience-service-outage-in-venezuela/

[LiteCoinGuy]

According to Coindesk it is a DNS server issue, not a government blockage: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-websites-experience-service-outage-in-venezuela/

yep, that seems to be true.

[polynesia]

According to Coindesk it is a DNS server issue, not a government blockage: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-websites-experience-service-outage-in-venezuela/

Was the DNS server issue restricted to bitcoin websites? That seems to be fishy.
The positives from this are that the government will know the negative reaction that they will face in case they try to block bitcoin-related sites.

[notthematrix]

According to Coindesk it is a DNS server issue, not a government blockage: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-websites-experience-service-outage-in-venezuela/

select google DNS and you will be fine , blocking does not help we all know that.
see http://www.thepiratebay.se