The Chinese authorities began to fight not only with financial transactions in cryptocurrencies, but also with information services. From today on, CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap and Trading View have been blacklisted.
“The Great Chinese Firewall”
blocked Citizens’ access to well-known cryptocurrency market data sites and providers – CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap and TradingView. Chinese crypto enthusiasts today began to massively complain on social media that they could not access sites.
Contrary to recent claims that these resources themselves
blocked China’s IP subnets, it was the government that did it. In particular, CoinGecko co-founder and COO Bobby Ong stated that they did not block the addresses of Chinese users.
“It looks like China is stepping up its crackdown on the crypto industry and this time CoinGecko was blacklisted simply for information about cryptocurrencies.”
The notification from Chinese regulators also affected messengers. In the Chinese messenger WeChat, administrators of cryptocurrency-themed groups changed their names and warned users about the transfer of groups to Telegram. In addition, more and more information appears on WeChat on how to bypass the blockage using a VPN.
Technology companies were ahead of the curve with the bans. Back in early summer, Chinese search engines Baidu and Sogou stopped providing links to three cryptocurrency exchanges Binance, Huobi and OKEx. Social networks Weibo (analogous to Twitter) and Zhihu (analogous to Quora) also closed access to Chinese exchanges.
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