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Telegram Founder Chastises Facebook & Instagram For Allowing Scams to Thrive

Telegram founder Pavel Durov admonishes Facebook and Instagram for generating ad revenue from scams that are being promoted from his name. Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, lashes out at Facebook and Instagram for making money off of scammy ads that use Durov’s name and image. Through his Russian Telegram channel on June 17, Durov accuses the…
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Father of JOBS Act: Gov’t Was Concerned Libra Could Displace Dollar

The father of the JOBS Act would be happy to help Telegram with an IPO if the company chooses to revert to a traditional fundraising model. David Weild IV, who is known as the father of the JOBS Act, believes that the U.S. government had to move to stamp out Facebook’s Libra stablecoin. Facebook: Number…
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South Korean Prosecutors Freeze Crypto Wallets of Suspected Child Porn Ring Chief

A Seoul court granted the petition demanded by the prosecutors to freeze crypto wallets owned by the head of the Nth Room case. On June 2, a South Korean court ordered a freeze on all the cryptocurrency wallets, securities deposits, and stocks account owned by Cho Ju-bin, the suspected head of Nth Room. Nth Room…
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Russian Authorities Disagree Over Lifting Telegram Ban

While Russia is facing disagreement over the legal status of Telegram and crypto, both continue operating in the country. A major state authority in Russia has objected to the State Duma’s proposal to cancel the ban on Telegram’s encrypted messenger in the country. Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, also known as…
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New Tipbot Uses Cryptocurrency to Incentivize People to Answer Questions

It’s designed to capture attention from high-profile people that others want to hear from. A new kind of cryptocurrency tipbot allows users to pay others to answer their questions on social media, providing a new tool to pool data in the ecosystem. Liser Lee of CCTip told Cointelegraph that the system can help drive engagement…
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The Death of the ICO: Has the US SEC Closed the Global Window on New Tokens?

As Telegram learned, regulators in the U.S. are a major barrier to new projects looking for funding anywhere in the world. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s vigor in pursuing initial coin offerings, or ICOs, has become a major boogeyman within the crypto community.  Most recently, the case against Telegram ended with that company…
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Free TON Launches First Contests to Distribute Tokens Among Contributors

Free TON launches first community contests, planning to distribute thousands of TON Crystals among winners and participants. Free TON, a decentralized blockchain network derived from Telegram’s TON blockchain, is launching the first community contests to power its network. Starting Monday, users, developers and validators are invited to participate in three separate contests, with Free TON…
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Bitcoin Breakout Hopes, R.I.P. TON, Trump Threatened: Hodler’s Digest, May 11–17

Bitcoin price charts hint at an exciting breakout, Telegram officially ditches TON, and why Trump could be the next victim of the REvil ransomware group. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions…
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TON’s Journey Over Before It Began as Others Take Up Telegram’s Mantle

Telegram’s TON network and coin were destined to fail with regulators, experts say. So, what’s left of the project? Telegram Open Network is off to a very uncertain future. Earlier this week, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced his company’s “active involvement with TON” was over, following a drawn-out legal battle with the United States Securities…
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Pantera Capital Founder Says Regulators ‘Triggered’ by Grams and Libra

‘The U.S. government will not let random startups’ challenge the dollar, says Dr. Waterhouse. Dr. Steven Waterhouse, a founding partner of Pantera Capital and the CEO of Orchid (OXT), believes that the U.S. government will not let a private enterprise challenge the dollar. In an interview recorded prior to Telegram announcing it had given up…
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