{"id":69587,"date":"2022-11-04T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69587"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:54:15","slug":"media-reports-on-bybits-stance-regarding-sanctions-against-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-reports-on-bybits-stance-regarding-sanctions-against-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Media reports on Bybit&#8217;s stance regarding sanctions against Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit will not impose restrictions on users in Russia. This was told to <a href=\"https:\/\/getblock.net\/news\/bybit-refuses-to-impose-sanctions-against-russian-users\">GetBlock Magazine<\/a> by an informed source, citing a message to the platform&#8217;s partners.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Bybit said that they would not &#8220;discriminate against users by their location or passport&#8221;. Restrictions may affect only cases where the client&#8217;s jurisdiction does not allow futures trading without licenses. Such a ban is in effect, for example, in the United States, Singapore and China. <\/p>\n<p>The Singapore-founded Bybit exchange received a license in the UAE in March 2022 and soon moved its headquarters to Dubai. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Monetary Authority of Singapore reminded licensed crypto exchanges of the need to comply with sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the EU approved another package of sanctions that included <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/eu-fully-bans-cryptocurrency-services-for-russians\">ban on servicing cryptocurrency accounts<\/a> for Russian citizens and residents, regardless of the amount of the deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit will not impose restrictions on users from Russia, according to an informed source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69588,"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":[1412,1151,2300],"class_list":["post-69587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-bybit","tag-crisis-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69587","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=69587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69589,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69587\/revisions\/69589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}