Repost: Starting from 20th September, most Chinese couldn't get access to bitcointalk.org. 8btc was the first to report the situation and weibo. Initial guess was that the GFW found a new target.
Later other website claimed that bitcointalk purposely block Chinese IP because Quote 由于中国国内的杠杆和期货业务对比特币价格造成巨大波动，严重损害了比特币的价值。现国际比特币社区bitcointalk和比特币基金会下的节点网站getaddr.bitnodes.io均已屏蔽国内大部分IP。从国内大部分地方访问 getaddr.bitnodes.io 页面已经被禁止访问。明显是管理员设置了IP禁止，在国外访问正常。 Quote Bitcoin's value has been greatly compromised by the margin trade and futures in Chinese exchange, now bitcointalk and getaddr.bitnodes.io are inaccessible from many places in China. It's obvious that the administrator blocked Chinese IP. Visit from abroad is normal.
Somehow this has become the topic of the day among Chinese btcers. People blame this to the Chinese exchange that provides margin trade and futures like 796.com. Another new exchange announce yesterday that they will provide 50X margin.
A thread propose to change the Hosts file to visit bitcointalk, another thread here got response that Shanghai visit normal but many people are blocked and the Chinese subforum has become very quiet.
Thoughts?
