What do you mean by unable to pay? Would it not just be more expensive? Assuming the banks will convert your transactions when you pay.
The Russian banks seem to have stockpiled currency, so I assume they will be able to keep the loop going.
The Russian banks seem to have stockpiled currency, so I assume they will be able to keep the loop going.
Also I just noticed elsewhere on HN that Namecheap has officially sanctioned Russia themselves.
They’ve been banned from the US/UK central banks and can’t settle transactions in those currencies at all. Maybe more by now.
Four of its journalists are being trialed right now because of January 2021 protests. They are accused for sharing a motivational video addressed to students not to stay silent.
Yesterday russian censorship started to block DOXA site, because they published anti-war debate manual. They switched their domain then got sanctioned by Namecheap.
It is very hard to host something inside country if you are targeted by censoring.
Getting an index of torrents around is the trick.