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Localbitcoins b& in russian federation...

http://www.coinfox.info/news/6399-localbitcoins-blocked-in-russia

Undecided

The decision took place before Russian authorities softened their rhetoric towards the cryptocurrencies.
So it seems either a very bad timing decision or a, even worse, a very stupid move.

It is blocked in germany for almost a year or even longer now
Wayne interessierts.

That's right. And it doesn't stop us from trading peer to peer.
The people here know how circumvent that stupid ban.
The russians will find ways too. I have no doubt about that.

I had not even realized that there was a ban of localbitcoins in Germany, so I googled it, and it appears that the ban began in about December 2014. Wow! I had considered a lot of the western european countries as a bit more receptive to bitcoin, yet I understand that there is all kinds of contradictions when it comes to the actions of various governments (in other words, hard to keep track of what everyone is doing even when consistently attempting to follow relevant bitcoin news developments).

The only thing the ban did was it froze competition. They blocked the IPs from Germany and made it so you can't create new ads in Germany. What this did was make it so that people that already had ads were now the only people selling bitcoins in Germany and they could charge high rates because of it. People still connected to the ads via VPN or whichever route they needed to take and once you were logged in you had access to all of your ads and messages anyway.

So by "blocking" it, all they did was create monopolies. As governments tend to do.