Bitcointalk Blocked Chinese IP?

[cuddaloreappu]

I had no idea that china blocked bitcoin talk... When did this happen?

http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/bitcointalk-org-now-blocked-in-china/

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[CoinProfits]

They export so much mining equipment..

[beetcoin]

china and russia sure don't like bitcoin any bit.. i guess they don't want people cashing out, instead of holding their currencies.

[Yuki1988]

china and russia sure don't like bitcoin any bit.. i guess they don't want people cashing out, instead of holding their currencies.

Most governments in the world don't know bitcoin.
For the second part, if they don't want their people to buy bitcoin, shouldn't they put some stricter regulations on their local exchanges rather than blocking bitcointalk?

[RocketSingh]

How can they stop Bitcoin Core from connecting to Bitcoin network ? If they could do, wont it defeat the whole concept of P2P ? I think, by barring a certain IP range, a P2P cant be broken...

Bitcoin Core is pretty easy to block. I think that just blocking port 8333 would cause serious problems for Chinese users. (There are some nodes on the network that don't use port 8333, but they're rare.) Bitcoin isn't designed to be difficult to block -- that's what Tor is for. It's been possible to run Bitcoin through Tor since version 0.1 AFAIK.

First of all, extremely sorry for my limited knowledge. By TOR, I understand a browser that connects to an anonymous network which helps to hide the IP of the TOR user by multiple proxies. So, how does one run Bitcoin Core through a browser ? I must be missing something... Can U please point me to any directive/manual that shows How to run Bitcoin Core using TOR ?

p.s. I checked blokchcain.info is working fine inside China => http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=blockchain.info

[theymos]

First of all, extremely sorry for my limited knowledge. By TOR, I understand a browser that connects to an anonymous network which helps to hide the IP of the TOR user by multiple proxies. So, how does one run Bitcoin Core through a browser ? I must be missing something... Can U please point me to any directive/manual that shows How to run Bitcoin Core using TOR ?

p.s. I checked blokchcain.info is working fine inside China => http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=blockchain.info

It's Tor, not TOR.

Tor is most commonly used for anonymous Web browsing, but it can anonymize any TCP traffic. In Bitcoin-Qt, the default proxy settings (127.0.0.1:9050, version 5) in the network options are usually appropriate for Tor. Just run Tor and tell Bitcoin-Qt to use the proxy.

[Yuki1988]

p.s. I checked blokchcain.info is working fine inside China => http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=blockchain.info

I just checked almost all bitcoin sites I know (news sites, exchanges, gambling sites, cloudmining sites, mining pools, block explorers) and none of them is blocked except for bitcointalk.

So I guess bitcointalk is blocked not because it is bitcoin-related, but rather some posts here get on the officials' nerves.

[ranochigo]

china and russia sure don't like bitcoin any bit.. i guess they don't want people cashing out, instead of holding their currencies.

Most governments in the world don't know bitcoin.
For the second part, if they don't want their people to buy bitcoin, shouldn't they put some stricter regulations on their local exchanges rather than blocking bitcointalk?

1) Most governments have already noticed bitcoin and have set or is setting regulations regarding that.
2) it is hard to block Bitcoin buying and selling even with strict regulations. They may have blocked bitcointalk because people can trade currencies here without the government knowing.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

p.s. I checked blokchcain.info is working fine inside China => http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=blockchain.info

I just checked almost all bitcoin sites I know (news sites, exchanges, gambling sites, cloudmining sites, mining pools, block explorers) and none of them is blocked except for bitcointalk.

So I guess bitcointalk is blocked not because it is bitcoin-related, but rather some posts here get on the officials' nerves.

That's my guess as well. Possibly these posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638589.msg7147202

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=636986.0

[RocketSingh]

First of all, extremely sorry for my limited knowledge. By TOR, I understand a browser that connects to an anonymous network which helps to hide the IP of the TOR user by multiple proxies. So, how does one run Bitcoin Core through a browser ? I must be missing something... Can U please point me to any directive/manual that shows How to run Bitcoin Core using TOR ?

p.s. I checked blockchain.info is working fine inside China => http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=blockchain.info

It's Tor, not TOR.

Tor is most commonly used for anonymous Web browsing, but it can anonymize any TCP traffic. In Bitcoin-Qt, the default proxy settings (127.0.0.1:9050, version 5) in the network options are usually appropriate for Tor. Just run Tor and tell Bitcoin-Qt to use the proxy.

Thanx for correcting. As an abbreviation I thought it should be all caps like TCP.

Can u plz tell me what do u mean by Just run Tor ? Run the Tor Browser or a Tor Node ?

[shorena]

The acronym is now a name thus Tor instead of TOR. Anyway, the Tor browser is just a special version of FF. If you dl the browser bundle you actuall start the proxy which in turn launches the browser. So just dl that and point qt to the proxy.