(It appears the restaurant has decided to block everything categorized as “cryptomining”, which Ime includes anything cryptocurrency related at all. If it were actually mining-related that would make sense - don’t want people mining in your restaurant lol, but TALOS Intelligence are incompetent race-to-the-bottom morons)
No, it’s worse. The network filtering companies (which they appear to be using) sell “bad domain lists” primarily by arguing “we have more bad domains than our competition”, so it’s all a race to the bottom to include as much stuff as possible for as little cost as possible.
In this case, I assume the blocks are provided by https://talosintelligence.com/reputation_center who has a long history of totally nonsensical blocks and when you point out an issue they fix it then remove it a week later.
Never, ever, ever deploy a network with a commercial firewall vendor’s domain blocks.
