{"id":4288,"date":"2017-09-14T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:55:15","slug":"leading-cryptocurrency-exchange-poloniex-stops-servicing-crimea-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/leading-cryptocurrency-exchange-poloniex-stops-servicing-crimea-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange Poloniex Stops Servicing Crimea Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crimea residents are no longer able to use Poloniex services. At least that\u2019s the conclusion from the exchange\u2019s support team <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miningclub.info\/threads\/poloniex-krym-nelzja.17396\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response to a query<\/a><\/span> from a user resided in Crimea.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exchange\u2019s response reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cOur systems have detected that you may be in Crimea. Unfortunately Poloniex is halting use of the exchange for Crimea residents and citizens.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The response goes on to suggest the user undergoes a verification and proves he lives elsewhere in case he believes the exchange\u2019s decision was wrong. The verification procedure implies that a user provides the service with a photocopy of his or her passport, a phone number, and a verified place of residence.<\/p>\n<p>The Poloniex adiministration noted that the limitations cover trading but not withdrawal of funds.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, this turns out to be not the only one instance. A copy of another similar letter from the Poloniex support was found on the web.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4289\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/223024811_1020679_1024.jpg\" alt=\"Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange Poloniex Stops Servicing Crimea Residents\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/223024811_1020679_1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/223024811_1020679_1024-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/223024811_1020679_1024-264x470.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/russia-loses-its-future-by-banning-bitcoin-or-another-cryptocurrency-eulogy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sanctions against Russia<\/span><\/a> imposed by the U.S. and the E.U. due to annexation of Crimea imply that products, investments, tourism-related services, and technologies for transport, telecom, power industry as well as oil and gas industry are not to be imported to Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, Visa and Mastercard halted their operation in Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Anatolin Aksakov, the chairman for Russia\u2019s parliamentary committee on financial markets, has stated that cryptocurrencies could help the country bypass the sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimea residents are no longer able to use Poloniex services. At least that\u2019s the conclusion from the exchange\u2019s support team response to a query from a user resided in Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[601,253,686],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimea","tag-poloniex","tag-sanctions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"98","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}