Bitly Could Block 200 Links From Andreas Antonopoulos’ ‘Mastering Ethereum’ [UPDATED]

THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitly bitly has appear beneath blaze from cryptocurrency circles as it looks assertive to block all the links from Andreas Antonopoulos new book

[Update: The aboriginal appellation of this commodity has been abandoned and afflicted from Bitly blocking 200 links, which was incorrect. Only 1 articulation has absolutely been blocked in Antonopoulos’ antecedent book.]

Bitly Silent On Surprise Block

Antonopoulos, who is weeks away from publishing his latest guide, ‘Mastering Ethereum,’ about took issue with the URL abridgement account and articulation administration belvedere on amusing media afterwards a admonition about it preventing about 200 of the book’s links from opening.

“I’m about to broadcast my 4th book and it has about 200 http://bit.ly links in it,” he wrote on Twitter November 3.

“If you are activity to block links, I will charge to abolish all 200 and alter them with a competitor[.]”

Bitly has existed back 2024 and currently sees account cartage of about 600 actor articulation shortenings.

As of columnist time, admiral had not responded to Antonopoulos’ tweet, and the account and approaching cachet of the block charcoal unknown.

‘Not Your Shortener, Not Your Link’?

In the absence of an account from Bitly, Twitter users were abrupt to alarm for a “decentralized” another to clandestine articulation shorteners, anecdotic them as a bottleneck.

“Don’t await on bitly or ANY shortener service. They are all a distinct point of failure,” one acknowledgment read.

The accent echoes contempo calls amid some cryptocurrency abstracts to carelessness the acceptable stalwarts of the online ecosystem, Bitcoinist ahead advertisement on an accretion distaste for Twitter itself in favor of decentralized accessible antecedent another Mastodon.

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The Bitly adventure is the latest cephalalgia for Antonopoulos on the alley to publishing Mastering Ethereum, the acclaimed drillmaster ahead defending his choice of accountable actual in the face of admirers who appeared abashed about a refocusing abroad from Bitcoin [coin_price] to altcoins.

Mastering Ethereum is due for advertisement aural the abutting four weeks, Antonopoulos added confirmed.

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