{"id":36531,"date":"2021-02-16T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36531"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:47:30","slug":"court-ends-case-over-blocking-of-bestchange-aggregator-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/court-ends-case-over-blocking-of-bestchange-aggregator-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Court ends case over blocking of BestChange aggregator site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prosecutor&#8217;s office dropped its bid to block the BestChange aggregator site for cryptocurrency exchanges. ForkLog said that the Digital Rights Center, the law firm that represented the project&#8217;s interests in court, told them.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to lawyer Valeria Smirnova, the prosecutor&#8217;s refusal was explained by the law &#8220;On Digital Financial Assets&#8221;, which came into force on January 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In reality, the entry into force of this law merely confirmed the validity of our position that disseminating information about cryptocurrency has never been prohibited. The legislature simply needed time to bring new legal relationships into the legal framework,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a reminder, the site Bestchange.ru <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/roskomnadzor-again-blocks-crypto-portal-bestchange\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was blocked in August 2020<\/span><\/a> on the basis of a decision by the Kotlas City Court dated January 22, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prosecutor considered that the site contained prohibited information, namely the offer to acquire Bitcoin and &#8216;certain goods for the above-mentioned currency, representing a virtual means of payment and store of value&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November, Arkhangelsk Regional Court <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/court-orders-the-unblocking-of-bestchange-ru-the-bitcoin-exchange-aggregator\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overturned the ruling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, since the site owner was not involved in the case. In December, Roskomnadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bestchange-bitcoin-exchange-aggregator-removed-from-russias-register-of-banned-websites\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">excluded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bestchange.ru from the register of banned websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, the prosecutor&#8217;s office also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/court-ends-case-over-blocking-bestchange-mirror-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-aggregator\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">withdrew the claims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to block the aggregator&#8217;s mirror \u2014 Bestchange.net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office dropped its bid to block the BestChange cryptocurrency-exchange aggregator site. ForkLog reported that the Digital Rights Center, the law firm that represented the project in court, told them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,1257,27],"class_list":["post-36531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-currency-exchanges","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36533,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions\/36533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}