{"id":27498,"date":"2020-08-20T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27498"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:09:40","slug":"russian-prosecutor-generals-office-blocks-two-anonymous-email-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-prosecutor-generals-office-blocks-two-anonymous-email-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office blocks two anonymous email services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office blocked the anonymous email services anonymousspeech.com and vistomail.com, which provide enhanced anonymity, according to RosKomSvoboda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office blocked two more anonymous email services <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hluqZhhN8v\">https:\/\/t.co\/hluqZhhN8v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, in 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto used one of these resources to disseminate the Bitcoin white paper, and the other participated in creating the cryptocurrency&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RosKomSvoboda (@RuBlackListNET) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuBlackListNET\/status\/1296362631981400066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The resources were blocked as part of an ongoing investigation into a series of false bomb threats. Letters about bomb threats were received from the anonymousspeech and vistomail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/spb_sz\/12\/08\/2020\/5f33e16c9a7947cfc1ee0011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a> \u043f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u0430 \u043e \u043c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f\u0445.<\/p>\n<p>These services were also used by Bitcoin&#8217;s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On August 15, 2008, the Bitcoin.org domain was registered on anonymousspeech.com. A few months later the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin white paper<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appeared here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, in correspondence with developers, Satoshi Nakamoto stated that he had bought the domain, though he did not specify from whom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The email satoshi@vistomail.com appeared in Nakamoto&#8217;s communications with users and developers in the early days of Bitcoin development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains unrevealed. ForkLog has compiled the most popular theories about who may be behind this name in one <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">piece<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office blocked the anonymous email services anonymousspeech.com and vistomail.com, which provide enhanced anonymity, according to RosKomSvoboda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1754,111],"class_list":["post-27498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blocked-russia","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"97","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27500,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions\/27500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}