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Binance’s ‘Chinese Twitter’ Gets Blocked for Unknown Violations

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Binance’s official account on China’s major microblogging website Weibo has been blocked. The account of the major global exchange was blocked on Nov. 13, purportedly due to violations of the site’s policies, Taiwan-based publication The China Times reported on Nov. 15. At press time, Binance’s Weibo page is blocked, displaying a notice that the account has violated provisions of the Weibo Community Convention. All content, including Binance’s posts and the number of followers, is currently unavailable. Cointelegraph has contacted Binance for a comment on the issue, but the exchange has…

Cointelegraph Blocked in Russia | Cointelegraph

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Cointelegraph’s website has become widely inaccessible in Russia as authorities added the domain to a registry of blacklisted sites. The blacklist Although Cointelegraph has been publicly on a list of blocked sites since 2017, it was only yesterday, October 16, that the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, more commonly known as Roskomnadzor, implemented the block on a technical level.  The developer of a popular Russian anti-censorship browser extension, who wishes to remain anonymous for security reasons, confirmed the block to Cointelegraph. “The URL…

Microsoft’s Bing Blocked Over Five Million Cryptocurrency-Related Ads in 2018

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Microsoft-owned search engine and advertisement platform Bing noted that it blocked over five million cryptocurrency-related ads last year in its “Ad quality year in review 2018” report published on March 25. Bing notes that the pseudo-anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) “made cryptocurrency a prime target for fraudsters and scam artists to defraud end-users.” Bing claims that this is the reason for the ban of cryptocurrency-related content from its advertising platform that resulted in over five million ads being blocked. Bing also notes that its ban against weapon advertisement…

Access to 190M blocked after cryptocurrency exchange founder dies

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Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is seeking creditor protection after it became unable access 190 million Canadian dollars (145 million US dollars) in funds following its owner’s sudden death in December. QuadrigaCX‘s chief executive and co-founder Gerald Cotten died aged 30 from complications with Crohn’s disease on December 9 while he was travelling in India, the Vancouver-based company said on Facebook. The exchange platform said in a statement that it filed an application for creditor protection on January 31 to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court to ‘allow us the opportunity to…