bitcoin.com

Mostly blocked

6 of the 7 URLs we have a verdict for under bitcoin.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 169 tests have been run under this domain since 2014-05-13, the most recent on 2026-07-26.

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://bitcoin.com is blocked, https://bitcoin.com is intermittent.

The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

7URLs tested
6blocked
169tests all-time
2014first tested
22 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://bitcoin.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://bitcoin.comIntermittenthttp://www.bitcoin.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.bitcoin.comas of 2026Blocked

Pages and subdomains (3)

https://news.bitcoin.comBlockedhttps://local.bitcoin.comBlockedhttp://markets.bitcoin.comas of 2026Blocked

About bitcoin.com and the Great Firewall

Is bitcoin.com blocked in mainland China?

6 of the 7 URLs we have a verdict for under bitcoin.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 169 tests have been run under this domain since 2014-05-13, the most recent on 2026-07-26.

Why does http://bitcoin.com behave differently from https://bitcoin.com?

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://bitcoin.com is blocked, https://bitcoin.com is intermittent. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

How can I reach bitcoin.com from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks bitcoin.com. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.

Elsewhere on the site

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Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.