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Crypto Exchanges Are Suddenly Being Censored In Iran

CoinDesk Daily is sponsored by  🇺🇸July 4, 2018 🇺🇸 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." – Thomas Jefferson Got this from a friend? SUBSCRIBE HERE THE FEATURE Crypto Exchanges Are Suddenly Being Censored In Iran "Every crypto exchange in Iran [has been] filtered since May." That's how one Iranian bitcoin advocate, speaking on condition of anonymity, described a new wave of government censorship that has cut Iranians off from vital links to the crypto economy ahead of a scheduled renewal of U.S. sanctions in August and November. Several Iranians exclusively told CoinDesk they are having trouble accessing crypto exchanges like Binance, Blockchain and LocalBitcoins, even with virtual private networks (VPNs) and other workarounds that were already commonplace because of international sanctions. 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