SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering

Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by noobermin on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:39PM (#21229674)

I hope this isn't too much of an aside, but this is part of why this current way of doing things isn't sustainable. Although telegram is end-to-end encrypted and isn't really comparable to IRC, IRC, while waning in popularity still works because it's a tool. If telegram can't get funding then what happens to its users?

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by newscracker on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:42AM (#21230736)

Did you mean to say “isn’t” with respect to end-to-end encryption? Telegram chats are, by default, not end-to-end encrypted. Only if you choose to have a “secret chat” with one person it is end-to-end encrypted.

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by commandersaki on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:43AM (#21230740)

It’s only end to end encrypted if you opt-in. For a modern messaging solution, end to end encryption should be mandatory.

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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by ryanlol on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:43AM (#21231099)

Telegram generally isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and when it is it’s backdoored https://m.habr.com/en/post/206900/

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