Bankers Shut Down Bulgaria’s Bitcoin Exchanges Last Week

Bulgaria: ​Banks cracked down on Bitcoin exchanges last week by closing down the exchanges' commercial-bank accounts and blocking them from obtaining national currencies. The exchanges pointed to bankers, not the government, as the source of the problem, although it is likely that the government would have prevented the banks from doing that to any other class of customers. According to independent news sources, the exchanges began restoring ​operations several days later. [...]