Finally got access to the Telegram wallet which they announced last year but I'd never seen in the wild. 

Looks absolutely sick, but unfortunately nerfed if you're American due to anti-US rage from Pavel. 

What I can't figure out is how the app is figuring that out given I'm in Dubai, and region set to Spain/Europe.

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

Some fine company the US is keeping these days.

In theory the app could be using the model numbers (which maps to the destination market), but not sure you can pull that in iOS. 

Also, a colleague who bought their iPhone in NYC is using the TG wallet fine while living in Mexico. So can't be that. Maybe time-averaging GPS location?

They talked about it on https://pca.st/episode/21a7be8d-dd0e-43e8-9a57-c9a6e43660b2 and said that it was phone number based

Head of Engineering at Courtyard.io, bringing physical collectibles onchain. nf.td/joe /courtyard /backend

Interestingly, my colleague has both US and Mexican SIMs, and he somehow passes the filter. Hmm....will have to do something here.

Surely it’s US regulation rather than rage that blocks US

You can check out their twin, the iMe app. They have wallet integration with Binance, Arbitrium and other chains within the app, it's similar to Telegram Wallet. And it's very simple