Topic: Bitcointalk blocked by the Great Firewall of China! (Read 2716 times)

A bit off topic, but "arguably" the most active forum?  Is there even any other forum that has even a quarter of the traffic this one has?

I'm back in China now and the forum works fine for me too.

The last time I tried Tor in China was in 2011, but it was being blocked.

Creating accounts through TOR isn't possible and you must pay a fee to become a member here if you sign up through TOR.

Tor gives us a new IP everytime we open a new tor browser. If an account is created using a tor IP by paying a fee, can it again get banned while trying to login with another tor IP or will he be forced to pay a fee again ?

Creating accounts through TOR isn't possible and you must pay a fee to become a member here if you sign up through TOR.

Tor browser is always available.

I'm replying through tor now.

What do u mean by that ? Are u from China ? If yes, then have u tested it ?

Tor browser is always available.

Can u plz try out accessing BitcoinTalk using a tor browser and let us know ?

I am Chinese,actually I can still access the Forum through the phone network(CUCC) ,but the forum isn't available on the PC as the PC is connected to Internet with the CTCC network.This is my situation.


We could not say the GFW has banned the forum because we can get access to the forum in some way even it's unstable. But we believe the day that they ban the forum fully might come someday.

The comment on Japan is probably the most stereotyped assumption that I have heard in a while.

By the way, what is a POI?

You dont buy much mining equipment do you, they already own the mining market, their miners are cheap fast and easy to use. the parts inside are also cheap crap and easy to break, But if you know what you are doing you can get a nice cheap minner and have it running forever. the Manufactures keep 12% of what they make, then "Rigorously Test" the other machines for as long as it takes to sell them. They already do almost have 50% of the hashrate right up there with Craphash.io (ghash.io) very quickly.

This (I THINK) came at a time that was drastic for china. With Alibaba POI coming out they wanted to Guarantee thier investors were investing in CHINA. remember China did not found  or create Bitcoin and its named after a Japanese person. CHINA HATES JAPAN, they hate everything about japan. I would easily say it is not bitcoin but how bitcoin was founded that is pushing this hostility towards bitcoin. If it were founded by Wu Kang Chung they may be more Apt to accept and embrace it.

no matter what the case they are successfully crashing the price so their plan is working perfectly as planned. The chinese invester who did not get out are clearly getting out now with a value close to 385 now. we are all loosing because of china. I hope they stay out this time, and go mess with the rich wallstreet boys and leave us alone. They can have their gold, and slaves, they can have their copper and electric, they can have their Great Firewall and bullshit, just leave the Bitcoin Community out of it.

I don't understand this continuous hostility from China, they could easily own the mining market and thus a great percentage of the network, effectively having influence on Bitcoin itself.

They should just let you pretend to have freedom and use the internet. That way you can get on some forum and bitch about everything while they continue to squeeze your balls in a vise.

No, these forums won't be affected , you know ,hosting in China means the server is in China, in other words, they control everything, if there is something they don't like they will ask the site to delete it or they will take the server down directly.

Doesn't make sense to ban internet but not phone network.

There are also some crypto forums hosted in China, are they being affected?

I've seen every subject discussed on this forum in the last few years. Drugs, guns, overthrowing governments, bomb making, protest marches, torture, gambling, popular media stories, political debates, porn (every type, no matter how perverse), racism, prostitution, womanizing, bondage, rape, murder, robbery, fraud, assault, and one guys frequent sexual attraction to goats and other small farm animals.

You say the Chinese want to block this forum? Only the Chinese? I'm surprised every government in the world doesn't try to block it.

When you have nearly 2 billion obedient human cattle to herd, you are extremely dependent on manufactured unreality. It's the same in the USA and Russia. Here we discuss reality, here we discuss the future, here we discuss mathematical inevitability.

Mystery? There is no mystery at all. This sort of behavior is extremely predictable. Our truth is a direct threat to their mass-deception. Of course they don't want their citizens exposed to it! Look, the truth is like a virus infecting their body of lies.
Attempting to silence the truth via desperate quarantine is like an immune system response, totally futile but ultimately unavoidable. This is the last gasp of the nation-state, folks.

The dawn of the information age heralds the end for all nations, because all nations are built on a sandcastle of lies, and the unstoppable tide of information is finally coming in.

"Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

I am Chinese,actually I can still access the Forum through the phone network(CUCC) ,but the forum isn't available on the PC as the PC is connected to Internet with the CTCC network.This is my situation.


We could not say the GFW has banned the forum because we can get access to the forum in some way even it's unstable. But we believe the day that they ban the forum fully might come someday.

In a move no less curious than its previous attempts, China has blocked a popular Bitcoin website from being accessed on its domestic servers – but why?

Nonetheless, the reason for targeting this specific outlet for Bitcoin observers remains a mystery.

In a move no less curious than its previous attempts, China has blocked a popular Bitcoin website from being accessed on its domestic servers – but why?

China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has long been the subject variously of wonder and bewilderment, and now it is the turn of arguably the most active Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk.org, to have the lights turned off.

According to a Reddit thread, requests submitted to the testing site greatfirewallofchina.org came back unsuccessful from all provinces’ IP addresses at present. The shift in accessibility came as a surprise to many, especially as it seems to be a one-off instance and not part of a wider concerted effort, as has been  previously been the case.

Attention was further drawn to a response by user u/alanX, who commented, “I'm at the Bitcoin Conference in Shanghai, and I can access Bitcointalk.org just fine. Google and google drive, no. Can't access them, but no problem accessing Bitcointalk.org.”

Newsbtc adds that coming from within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone it is possible that this latest addition is not subject to an all-out ban. Reddit users clarified the matter, however, with u/Liongrass stating, “… the Bitcoin conference wasn't hosted inside the Free Trade Zone. The Bitcoin conference however provided the participants with censorship-free internet via a proxy service.”

China made the news regarding the same issue in May, when CoinDesk reported suspension of access to its site and several others including non-media related resources such as Blockchain.info. CoinTelegraph.com and other media sites have thus far been spared this week.

Meanwhile, Bitcointalk users have taken to pondering the significance of the ban, which in line with other blocked sites such as Facebook and Twitter, can be circumvented via use of a VPN connection, as sites are banned by IP address and not domain. Such services have seen attempts at blocking, it is reported, but as doing so is practically impossible, they are in general available for use.

CoinTelegraph reached out to the Chinese Bitcoin community for its perspective on the move, and the mood seemed less than panicked.

“I don't believe this indicates any further ban against Bitcoin, more likely that some government officials want to do nothing and play safe,” a spokesman for exchange LakeBTC said. The company also added:



    “To Chinese government officials, they don’t care about Bitcoin but they care about a group of people gathering together to protest.”

Nonetheless, the reason for targeting this specific outlet for Bitcoin observers remains a mystery. As of September 25, Bitcointalk.org remains blocked.