Bitcointalk has been blocked in Russia because of Gambling advertisement

[Balthazar]

But the main problem with TOR is that it is too slow. For live betting, it can be very difficult to use TOR.

Betting is a disease, other use cases are fine.



The truth is that Tor is not slow, I'd say that it's comparable to mobile network around the dense crowd. So it's more than enough for most of the activities with exception for media content because I doubt that the donated bandwith will be sufficient for 4K streaming.

Most of the real issues, however, are caused by DDoS protection services like Cloudflare. Cloudflare has a support for Privacy Pass which may be used to bypass annoying CAPTCHA verifications, but their competitors are not so progressive.

[1715343819]

1715343819

[NavI_027]

For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?

Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort 
And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!

Good to know, I thought it will have greater chance to get deleted because of this news. At least they still got a reason for staying here. Good luck for them on how they will access this site. I know VPN could work but they should be very careful or else they'll receive a punishment for sure. We all know how sharp the claws of Putin's governance . Nonetheless, I hope this is not final — I hope they will revoke their decision.

[Darker45]

For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?

Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort 
And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!

Good to know, I thought it will have greater chance to get deleted because of this news. At least they still got a reason for staying here. Good luck for them on how they will access this site. I know VPN could work but they should be very careful or else they'll receive a punishment for sure. We all know how sharp the claws of Putin's governance . Nonetheless, I hope this is not final — I hope they will revoke their decision.

I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.

For sure, Russians have enough leeway to circumvent this unfortunate decision.

I don't understand why a forum is being blocked for reasons related to gambling. This is not a gambling site, in the first place. Also, if gambling is discussed or even promoted, it does not mean it is being directed to Russia. This is a global forum. And everybody in here should be fully aware of his/her country's domestic laws.

[rodskee]

For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?

Nope will never Happen unless Theymos will be commanded by Putin and Trump to do this but i doubt he will follow because there are so many ways for russians to access the site by using VPN and other ways.

I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.

that same thought here mate because i don't think we can be Run by any government because we are a Independent market and has our own rules.

[Wexnident]

I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.

For sure, Russians have enough leeway to circumvent this unfortunate decision.

I don't understand why a forum is being blocked for reasons related to gambling. This is not a gambling site, in the first place. Also, if gambling is discussed or even promoted, it does not mean it is being directed to Russia. This is a global forum. And everybody in here should be fully aware of his/her country's domestic laws.

Well, they have their own reasons and laws for that. Better much respect that tbh. Sides, the internet has a lot of ways to bypass the bans set by their country so I doubt that those legit users from Russia would quit just like that cause of the ban. I also doubt Russia has the ability to ban gambling ads selectively, I doubt they would put that much effort when they can just ban the site entirely. There's also the negative notion of what gambling is, so can't really blame them. Probably more than 7 out of 10 people, if asked, would answer that gambling is a negative influence and most would answer that only bad people would gamble. And technically it isn't wrong, but it's more related to the person itself rather than gambling, but who would care about that now no?

[thekrakennnm]

That's correct. Can't reach the forum without using VPN (currently TOR instead tbh). Thanks for sharing the news thought it was an IP ban or smth 

[ethereumhunter]

I hope that people in Russia can still visit this forum, and the block from their government will be open because people discuss Bitstarz, and bitcointalk was coincidentally has been used for communicating with other people. But I am sure that people can still visit bitcointalk because they can use a VPN for a bridge to access this forum. Or maybe the blocked is temporary to investigate the real problem by the government. Let's hope everything will be okay.

[criza]

This could stir up problem for the people that supports Bitcoin. Russia is a big country, and a lot of people that uses the coin is from the country. Bitcointalk is a place for a lot of people to share and also learn about the current trends about the currency. Hoping the banning would soon be lift up for our fellow supporters.

[Cratoon]

Actually kinda surprised that didn't happened earlier.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.

[yazher]

Actually kinda surprised that didn't happened earlier.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.

VPN is only for advance users, newbies don't know how to use it. sometimes they also blocked certain VPNs to access some sites they blocked on their country. Like what happen to that manager of Iost bounty last year when he suddenly need to visit China and he has to have a hard time accessing this site from there. blocked site in China can be tricky to get accessed, that's why I told you only advance users can surpass it.

[Sadlife]

Most country's will blocked gambling sites but Bitcointalk.org ? that seems kinda weird, it's not even a gambling site.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.

[Debonaire217]

Most country's will blocked gambling sites but Bitcointalk.org ? that seems kinda weird, it's not even a gambling site.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.

I think for most countries with advance IT, even if you are using VPN or VPS, they can still detect you based on your activity from your ISP. So the only way we could make our transaction anonymous is to use bitcoin mixers. Though, I am not really advising it as the fees for this services is quite high, but if we really want to gamble at huge stake, or with huge bets, I probably suggests using mixers to make sure we could not be tracked when playing.

In terms of bitcointalk getting banned, I am having a highly suspicion regarding this, that they want the cryptocurrency as a whole to not be promoted as we know, bitcointalk is the main platform cryptocurrency users could speak and share knowledge to everyone.

[Swordsoffreedom]

In my mountry Gambling is a crime. Govt can take any necessary steps to stop gambling. If they think that bitcointalk is used to promote gambling then they will be stopped bitcointalk too. But it is not a big issue because by using vpn we can easily use any website we want.