Leading mobile carrier T-Mobile has allegedly blocked the Jupiter Exchange domain from its DNS. Most users are complaining they are unable to access the exchange’s website without a VPN service.
Jupiter confirmed the situation Friday, noting that the issues affect users predominantly in the West and mostly on mobile. Users either need to use a VPN service or switch to a desktop device in order to access the exchange’s domain.
We’re aware of some issues affecting users, predominantly in the West and mostly on Mobile due to ISP related issues.
— Jupiter
If https://t.co/knthINxFwN is crashing for you, try:
– using a desktop device
– using a VPN (this would use a new ISP)
We’re working on this rn!(@JupiterExchange) August 2, 2024
Jupiter, DRip Haus censored in the same week
Vibhu Norby, the founder of Solana creator platform DRiP Haus posted on X that, indeed, T-Mobile “disappeared Jupiter Exchange from their DNS, just like they disappeared DRiP Haus for the last week.”
DRiP Haus faced a similar censorship last week. The platform did not load for anyone using T-Mobile or any of the carriers T-Mobile resells to. Vibhu found their website was flagged and censored by a threat feed provider that the mobile carrier uses.
“After a lot of testing this week, we were able to definitively confirm tonight that the DriP Haus domain had been marked as malicious by a service that T-Mobile uses and subsequently blocked.”
– Vibhu
Jupiter said it’s currently working to resolve the issue with the respective providers.
The interval of the incidents only raises suspicions that T-Mobile or its threat feed providers are shunning crypto-related domains. “This is crypto censorship at the most sinister root level,” Vibhu said. “This type of censorship violates net neutrality rules, hurting businesses and consumers, and must end.”
T-Mobile will soon begin mining Bitcoin
Earlier in July, the parent company, T-Mobile Deutsche Telekom, disclosed it has been running a Bitcoin node and Bitcoin Lightning nodes since 2023. Dirk Röder, head of Web3 infrastructure and solutions at Deutsche Telekom’s Telekom MMS, revealed, “We will engage in ‘digital monetary photosynthesis’ soon.”
T-Mobile Deutsche Telekom are running Bitcoin nodes, Lightning nodes and will start mining #bitcoin
— Daniel Sempere Pico (@BTCGandalf) June 14, 2024
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE. pic.twitter.com/r7rihAinXt
When asked for clarity on whether T-Mobile is mining Bitcoin, Röder answered, “We will.”
T-Mobile is reportedly the third-largest mobile carrier in the United States, with over $210 billion in market cap. In addition to Bitcoin, the parent firm also runs validator nodes for Polygon, Q, Flow, Celo, Chainlink, and Ethereum.
T-Mobile has not publicly confirmed that it is cracking down or censoring crypto domains. The firm had previously demonstrated interest in crypto and plans to start mining Bitcoin soon.
