Recently, citizens of some countries have been having problems accessing crypto applications such as MetaMask, Infura and Opensea.
Most complaints come from Iran and Venezuela. On March 3, Iranian users opened their accounts on Opensea, the world’s most popular NFT marketplace. deleted or disabled. Upon this incident, Iranian NFT artist “Bornosor” shared many reproachful posts on Twitter.
Bornosor shared in the post:
I woke up today to find out that the NFT platform Opensea has disabled my account with no messages or notifications. I am disappointed.
said.
“Huge discrimination against Iranian citizens,” another Iranian NFT artist posted on Twitter. said.
In contrast, Opensea:
We apologize to our affected users. Opensea is subject to law policies with US sanctions. We are a US based company and are required to comply with US laws. Therefore, we have to prevent the citizens of the countries included in the law.
said.
It is owned by ConsenSys, which develops ethereum applications based in the USA. decentralized application (dApp) developer company Infura and wallet provider company MetaMask has become unusable in Venezuela due to new US sanctions.
U.S. companies in line with current U.S. law Iran, North Korea, Syria and last added country Russia nationals of any country on the sanctions list, including to provide goods or services does not allow.,
As a result of these recent events, these blockchain-based companies that it is not decentralized discussions ensued.