SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering

Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:50PM (#21228810)

Basically to evade American reach, you need to have support from Russia and/or China. If you don't have that support, you are going to have a very hard time.

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by threeseed on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:18PM (#21229005)

And Russia and China are hardly the type of countries who are keen to support a secure messaging platform.

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by ryanlol on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:49AM (#21231130)

Which, FWIW is exactly why Telegram doesn’t even try to be a secure messaging platform.

https://m.habr.com/en/post/206900/

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by favorited on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:39PM (#21229115)

Let's not pretend the United States government supports them either.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-recor...

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by haimez on Friday October 11, 2019 @07:40PM (#21229395)

How about we not pretend that Russia, China, and the US are playing the same game either?

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