EU Law Enforcement Finally Catches Up: Crypto Bro’s Wild Ride Comes Crashing Down

The French are at it again! This time they’re after Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, for allegedly violating EU laws related to content moderation and cryptocurrency use. But let’s be real, folks, this is just another example of the crypto bros getting caught with their pants down (or in this case, their wallets full). According to reports, France has charged Durov with facilitating a platform that enables illicit transactions – because what could possibly go wrong when you’re dealing with cryptocurrency? As Jemima Kelly so astutely pointed out in her writing on the topic, it’s just numbers on a computer created from nothing. And only criminals use it (or at least, that’s what we keep telling ourselves). But I digress. The European Union has been investigating Telegram for allegedly failing to provide accurate data on its user numbers – which is pretty rich coming from an organization that can’t even get the number of users right (41 million vs 45 million? Who’s counting?). And let’s not forget about the charges related to content moderation, because who doesn’t love a good game of whack-a-mole with illicit transactions and disinformation. All in all, it looks like Telegram is getting what was coming to them – or as I always say on r/buttcoin, .