Perhaps the owners themselves will invest their funds in the ico Telegram company and will thereby make a profit in the future.
Why would they do that ? $1.7 bln is enough for many life.
Well, no more news..
apparently all investors will be from a special Circle of people.
Here is an old e-mail :
As you have stated that you would like to purchase $10k or above in the Telegram Open Network (TON) we are sending you the your special BnkToTheFuture link to participate in the token sale. Before purchasing it will ensure you are a qualifying investor and walk you through the process.
NOTE - You will need to login to your BnkToTheFuture account to participate. We will never ask you ro send funds to an address by a message. If you are asked to send funds outside our secure platform it will not be us and most likely a scammer.
Telegram are on tranche 2 of their token sale and are currently only open to institutional investors that want to purchase a minimum of $10m worth of TON (Except for participants in our syndicate). They have told us that all allocations in Tranche 2 have been subscribed to already and that we (BnkToTheFuture) have the last remaining allocation. They have told us that Tranche 3 will be completed at the much higher price of $2.20 before it hits exchanges upon completion with no public sale.
This will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis and we close the link at 10pm UTC on Tuesday 13th March 2018 or when our complete allocation of $30m has been fully subscribed to. Either way, whichever one happens first will determine the close of the link.
You are able to subscribe to our syndicate of Telegrams Token Sale and bypass the $10m minimum investment requirement. The minimum to participate in the syndicate is $10k if you own BFT or $100k if you are not a BFT token holder and you can do so by following this link: