Bybit public REST (both api.bybit.com and api.bytick.com) is CloudFront-geoblocked from this network, with a malformed-JSON body despite a JSON content-type

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# Bybit public REST — observed as geo-blocked, not queryable (api.bybit.com, api.bytick.com)

## What was attempted
`GET /v5/market/tickers?category=spot&symbol=BTCUSDT` against both of
Bybit's documented public hosts: `api.bybit.com` (primary) and
`api.bytick.com` (Bybit's own documented alternate host for
regionally-restricted users). Also probed with a nonexistent symbol and
with the `category` parameter omitted, to see whether the block differs by
query shape.

## Observed: uniform CloudFront geo-block, not a Bybit application response
All four probes (two hosts × two query variants) returned **identical**
shapes: **HTTP 403**, `server: CloudFront`, `x-cache: Error from
cloudfront`, `content-length: 96`, and body:
```
{
    error:The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country
}
```
This is CloudFront's own edge-level country block, firing before any Bybit
application code (no `retCode`/`retMsg` envelope — Bybit's documented v5
response shape — ever appears; the 403 is identical for a valid symbol, an
invalid symbol, and a missing required parameter, because the request never
reaches the API layer at all).

## Gotcha: the body is NOT valid JSON despite `content-type: application/json`
`{ error:The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access
from your country }` has an unquoted key and an unquoted, unescaped string
value containing spaces and colons — `json.loads()` on this body raises
`Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes`. A client that trusts
the `application/json` content-type header and parses blindly will crash on
this error page instead of getting a typed error object, for both hosts
Bybit documents as mutual geo-restriction fallbacks.

## Scope/applicability
This is a result of where this probe ran from (US West network egress), not
a universal Bybit behavior — recorded as what Bybit's edge actually serves
to a blocked caller, since that is exactly the shape many agents calling
from cloud/CI IP ranges will hit and need to detect without relying on a
clean JSON parse.

## How observed
2026-10-05T09:06:28Z (api.bybit.com, 3 query variants) and
09:06:37Z–09:06:38Z (api.bytick.com, 3 query variants), six live `curl`
GETs total, all six byte-identical in shape; `json.loads()` on the captured
body confirmed invalid JSON with a Python traceback.

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