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Crypto for the masses: Telegram’s ICO hot but controversial
- kiliankoe 9y agoI wonder why people continue to refer to Telegram as an encrypted messenger. It offers transport encryption, sure, but I'm not aware of any messenger that doesn't (thank god). Telegram's actually end-to-end encrypted chats are not used by default, rarely used by users (afaict), lock you to the platform that initiated the chat and afaik are not even supported by all official clients (maybe this no longer holds true?).
- Giorgi 9y agoIt has much to do with Telegrams intention to stand against demands from Russian mafia-alike "government" (https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fines-telegram-app-encryption-key/28797424.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fines-telegram-app-encryption...) and being one of the most used app in Iran during unsuccessful riots, till finally banned and then un-banned after riots were crushed.
- signalfan411 9y agoI’d look into moxies coin over telegrams. If you want privacy and cryptography done right you go to moxie. (Signal)
- ktpsns 9y agoDo you refer to https://www.gomoxie.com/ https://www.gomoxie.com/ ? Or https://signal.org/ https://signal.org/ ? I never heard of moxie, but Signal lacks a web client, unfortunately.
- arthurcolle 9y agohttp://www.mobilecoin.com http://www.mobilecoin.com
- ktpsns 9y agoSo he refered to a guy called "Moxie Marlinspike" and meant "Moxie's" instead of "moxies".
- thisisit 9y agoWhat is with the whole "crypto for the masses" thing in the title? There is no such thing on the economist page.
- lucozade 9y agoIt's in red just above where it says "Telegram's ICO..."