Tag: telegram
Telegram tries to appease the SEC — no Gram tokens in Messenger
Telegram’s big-ticket investors may have a robust attitude to perceived shenanigans.
News: Bitcoin trading near-dead, MooCowMoo does a Dash, Lightning Network, CBDCs are a bluff, Keybase alienates users
I must say, I was sorely disappointed to hear such disconcerting news about esteemed senior financial adviser … (checks notes) … ah, “Moo Cow Moo.”
News: IDAX and Upbit hacks, Binance threatens The Block, Tether sued again, Libra Association, Craig Wright attorney fees, EOS centralises
Come see me on the Intelligence Squared panel in London on Thursday afternoon — free!
Telegram responds to the SEC complaint about the Grams ICO
The Howey test is so vague, and cryptos are so new! Who could know anything, really? See you in court.
News: Libra stumbles on, Bitmex leaks customer list, Crypto Capital Corp arrest and indictment, Tether appeal, Blockchain for China, Kleiman v. Wright settlement fails, Telegram tokens delayed, UK tax for cryptos
“BITCONNECT SAID TO EXIT LIBRA CONSORTIUM FOR FEAR OF BAD PRESS”
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance
If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
News: Bitcoin crashes despite Bakkt, Crypto Rating Council, Libra, Tether stay, Kik shuts down Messenger, Craig Wright’s apparent plagiarism, CoinDesk shakeup
Watch me debate Bitcoin as a reserve currency tomorrow!
News: Kleiman and Wright settling, Libra, Tether, Initial Sucker Offerings, enterprise “blockchains” as back-end datastores, Marshall Islands, Telegram TON software
Crypto in general is a complicated machine to funnel decreasing supplies of actual-money from retail suckers to about twenty guys.