{"id":53626,"date":"2021-11-26T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53626"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:07:52","slug":"china-restricts-access-to-mining-pool-domains-and-cryptocurrency-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/china-restricts-access-to-mining-pool-domains-and-cryptocurrency-media\/","title":{"rendered":"China restricts access to mining-pool domains and cryptocurrency media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of China&#8217;s cryptocurrency news portals, Chainnews, reported a shutdown after local users lost access to the site&#8217;s website and app, as well as to its competitors ODaily and BlockBeats. At the same time, providers began blocking access to mining-pool domains, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/125533\/china-crypto-censorship-media-mining-pools\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some outlets had to switch to Telegram and launch on new domains. ODaily and Block Beats continue to operate, but their mobile apps are inactive, limiting reach.<\/p>\n<p>The publication obtained internal documents from China Telecom. According to the document, the organisation developed an algorithm to detect and block connections from miner-owned internal IP addresses to the main mining pools.<\/p>\n<p>The provider can either disable internet service for particular IP addresses, or manually blacklist the URLs that pools use to connect to individual hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists described these steps as further signs of repression against local crypto-industry players. Under government pressure, firms curtailed operations or moved their business to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>In The Block, it was confirmed that the domains of almost all of the ten largest hash-rate pools for mining Bitcoin and Ethereum are inaccessible to internet users in China.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/btc.com\/\">btc.com<\/a>, at the time of writing there had been a noticeable drop in computing power for the two main cryptocurrencies, down as much as 18%, observed by F2Pool, ViaBTC and BinancePool. Their representatives spoke of connectivity difficulties in Telegram, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/26\/multiple-mining-pools-are-facing-connectivity-issues\/\">CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, media reported that in China <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-china-weighs-avenues-for-prosecuting-crypto-trading-and-mining\">are studying the possibilities of prosecuting mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, China <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-china-blocks-coingecko-and-coinmarketcap-services\">blocked<\/a> the cryptocurrency analytics services CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of China&#8217;s cryptocurrency news portals Chainnews reported a shutdown after local users lost access to the site&#8217;s website and app, as well as to its competitors ODaily and BlockBeats. At the same time, providers began blocking access to mining-pool domains, The Block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53627,"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":[1305,133,36],"class_list":["post-53626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-ban","tag-china","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53626","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=53626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53628,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53626\/revisions\/53628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}