China’s Great Firewall Censors Crypto Websites Coingecko, Coinmarketcap, Tradingview –

On September 28, reports from social media and crypto-focused forums described China blocking a number of cryptocurrency websites. The Twitter handle for 8btc News tweeted that the coinmarketcap.com and coingecko.com web portals have been blocked by mainland China. The “Great Firewall,” as it is often called, has also blocked a number of other websites such as tradingview.com.

Certain crypto web portals are currently inaccessible in China

The world knows that China likes to censor the Internet, and through a combination of legislative measures and technology enforced by Beijing, the Great Firewall (GFW) now exists in full force.

Through the forces deployed by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), along with the help of SIIO and the Golden Shield Project, many international web domains are inaccessible to Chinese residents. Mainland Chinese internet users cannot access websites such as Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Google and many other foreign information sources.

The latest crackdown Crackdown on cryptocurrencies by Chinese authorities began in late September, when the People's Bank of China reiterated that users in mainland China accessing offshore crypto exchanges constituted an illegal transgression.

The announcement caused a bloodbath in the crypto markets; the PBOC's actions ignited large onchain transactions and over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. Offshore crypto exchanges continue said customers from China that they would not provide services to Chinese residents.

On September 28, 2021, the Twitter handle for 8btc news shared a screenshot on the social media platform showing that two crypto-related websites are inaccessible in China. “Seems to be both [coinmarketcap.com] and [coingecko.com] blocked IPs from China,” which tweet detailed.

Tiger Securities and Futu Ban New Crypto Positions, Greatfire.org and BLOCKY Analysis Shows Websites 100% Blocked

Chinese journalist Colin ‘Wu’ Blockchain also revealed last week that the “Chinese [version of] Robinhood” has banned Futu from certain Grayscale positions.

“According to Futu (Chinese Robinhood), GBTC/EHTE/ETCG/GDLC/OBTC/LTCN/BCHG will ban new positions from October 1, 2021 at the request of the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission,” Wu Blockchain noted. “Tiger Securities, another Chinese online stock trading platform, also issued a similar notice,” the journalist added four days later on September 28.

With the stock proposals banning Chinese residents from certain funds tied to crypto and the website bans, Beijing is getting much more serious than ever before. The web portal review site greatfire.org notes that both coinmarketcap.com and coingecko.com are 100% inaccessible to citizens residing in China.

Tradingview.com is also blocked, huobi.com is blocked, and okex.com is blocked. Bitstamp is 100% blocked in China and uniswap.org is not accessible. Coinbase was suspended on September 27, 2021, according to website analyst greatfire.org.

Of course, residents and visitors to mainland China can try to access these websites through a virtual private network (VPN) or from another proxy. The website analyzer greatfire.org also has an alternative website analyzer called BLOCKY which can also search for GFW blocked websites.

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