Etherscan.io Block Observer is Banned in China

The lock was made using the national Internet brandmauer. You can check this on greatfire.org. According to this service, which tracks projects blocked by China, the ban on using the site has been in force since October 30, which significantly dropped the traffic.

The reasons why Etherscan was added to the block list services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are not reported. Perhaps an attempt to bypass China’s regulation and Internet censorship using blockchain technology caused the ban.

Many users from China encoded forbidden content using the blockchain, and then exchanged a hash of these transactions on WeChat. The situation has not changed despite the regular blocking of Etherscan URLs in the messenger. Therefore, the authorities were forced to take extreme measures.

According to Etherscan CEO Matthew Tan, the block was noticed by his employees even earlier. Statistics show that the problem with access existed in September. Perhaps that is why many users turned to the regional service website cn.etherscan.com. It is currently available from China.

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