Tag:telegram

News: Tether clogs Ethereum, Quadriga venue move, KodakOne sends copyright-trolling email, Telegram TON proceeding, no official Chinese stablecoin, Lightning in decline, don’t be your own bank

Ethereum is the World Computer! As long as you don’t try to use it for any sort of real application.
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Telegram’s $1.7 billion problem coming in October — KYC/AML on Gram tokens

I wonder how Telegram’s regulatory efforts are going — given how much their GRAM plan looks like Facebook’s Libra.
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News: FATF money laundering regs on crypto exchanges, Binance cuts off the US, Tether big in China, Bitcoin energy consumption, unofficial Telegram public sale, Cathio, IPFS, Visa’s non-blockchain

And the FUDCon 2019 exploratory committee. With T-shirts for PTK:SV and PTK Classic.
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News: LocalBitcoins less local, Cryptopia, QuadrigaCX, crypto banking, Telegram, Wirecard, EOS Voice, Kik and Defund Crypto, Wright gets a copyright competitor

So much for the “business deals in parking lots” market.
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News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Cryptopia hack coins moving, HitBTC may be insolvent, Craig Wright copyright registration, SEC v. ICOs, money laundering is still illegal with Bitcoins

How much do you need to annoy a government agency that it starts a whole new press page just to refute your claims?
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Telegram TON ICO: network in beta, the Gram sales agreement, new partner Wirecard

What do Telegram have to provide by October 2019? And why partner with Wirecard, who are currently trying to get Financial Times journalists prosecuted for writing about them?
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News: QuadrigaCX, Swift and Ripple, Mt. Gox, illegal abuse images on Bitcoin SV blockchain

If you made up the Quadriga saga as a story about lost pirate treasure, the target audience would have to be about four, because eight year olds wouldn’t buy it.
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The Telegram ICO’s TON blockchain has questionable security, and will probably centralise

I’m pretty sure Nikolai Durov is confident nobody could outsmart him here — he’s thought about it really hard, after all. But what happens when someone comes at the Telegram Open Network with a hammer?
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