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.

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

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

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.