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Did Kik Just Place a Target on the Backs of its Form-D ICO Peers?

07/06/2019

By CCN: Kik might very well have good intentions by inviting a fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ...

Gram dApp Devs Reveal Details of Telegram’s Secretive Blockchain

by P. H. Madore

27/05/2019

By CCN: Button Wallet is slated to be one of the first decentralized applications to launch on Telegram’s new blockchain, ...

Nike, Telegram, Facebook, and Everyone Else Suddenly Love Blockchain

by P. H. Madore

25/04/2019

By CCN: Nike is launching a blockchain product. Telegram is launching a blockchain. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its ...

Facebook: ‘Biggest on-Ramp Ever’ for Bitcoin Adoption?

by P. H. Madore

19/04/2019

By CCN: Spencer Bogart, a partner at crypto investment firm Blockchain Capital, argued in a new blog post that over ...

Telegram’s Cryptocurrency Stealthily Entered Private Beta: Russian Report

by P. H. Madore

11/04/2019

According to local Russian news outlet Vedomosti.ru, Telegram’s Open Network is now live in private beta, with several programmers and ...

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Won’t Let You Buy Your Privacy Back

by P. H. Madore

30/03/2019

Facebook is moving into cryptocurrency, aiming to create some type of stablecoin that will make it possible for users within ...

Narcotics Dealers Dump Dark Web for Telegram & WhatsApp

by Tim Lloyd

21/03/2019

As law enforcement increasingly cracks down on centralized dark-web markets, online narcotics dealers are migrating to encrypted messing apps like ...

Mammoth Facebook Outage Sends 3 Million Users Piling into Telegram

by Conor Maloney

14/03/2019

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that 3 million new users signed up to his encrypted messaging service in just 24 ...

Telegram’s Secretive Crypto Project is Now Just a Few ‘Minor Changes’ from Launch

by P. H. Madore

07/02/2019

Telegram’s crypto platform is now 20% further along than it was at the end of last year. According to an ...

Why a Russian Social Media Ban Would Hurt Twitter More Than Facebook

by Melanie Kramer

21/01/2019

By CCN.com: Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to sue Facebook and Twitter for not complying with laws pertaining to the ...

Iran Warns Citizens Against Using Telegram’s Cryptocurrency, Gram

by Mark Emem

02/01/2019

The Iranian government has continued its adversarial actions against Telegram by criminalizing the use of Gram, the native token of ...

MIT: Crypto Pump-and-Dumps See $7 Million in Volume Every Day

by Joseph Young

05/12/2018

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review, two researchers at the prestigious Imperial College London have utilized ...

Could South Korea Follow Japan in Allowing Private Crypto ICOs?

by Joseph Young

04/12/2018

On November 26, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan held an internal meeting to discuss the possibility of allowing ...

Telegram’s $1.7 Billion Cryptocurrency is 70% Complete: Report

by P. H. Madore

21/11/2018

An investor update from September pegged completion of the Telegram Open Network -- the social media giant's long-anticipated cryptocurrency project ...

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Bear Effect: SEC Crypto Crackdown Precedes 48% Drop in ICO Funding

by Mark Emem

17/11/2018 - Updated on 16/11/2018

The amount of money that initial coin offerings attracted in this year’s third quarter fell significantly compared to the second ...

Russia May Unban Telegram…if it Shares Encryption Keys with the FSB

by Josiah Wilmoth

28/08/2018

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog said that it will consider reversing the ban on messaging service Telegram if the company submits to ...

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Cryptographic Experts Reveal Security Issues in Telegram Passport

by Habiba Tahir

03/08/2018 - Updated on 02/08/2018

Virgil Security, Inc., a cryptographic services provider, has published a report which raises concerns regarding the security of Telegram Passport. ...