— Пиво принесла? Что-то зашипело, зажурчало. Сиротка толкнул меня в бок, поднявшись на четвереньках в совершенно собачьей стойке. Откуда-то из подпотолочной тьмы пролилась и ударила в пол невидимая в потемках струя. — Кружку! — страшным голосом вскричал Гарута. — Она пьяная, сейчас все разольет! Я кинулся к столу, схватил, что под руку попалось, — и вовремя. Струя иссякла через несколько секунд, но у меня в руках была полная умывальная миска чудесной жидкости.
— Пиво принесла? Что-то зашипело, зажурчало. Сиротка толкнул меня в бок, поднявшись на четвереньках в совершенно собачьей стойке. Откуда-то из подпотолочной тьмы пролилась и ударила в пол невидимая в потемках струя. — Кружку! — страшным голосом вскричал Гарута. — Она пьяная, сейчас все разольет! Я кинулся к столу, схватил, что под руку попалось, — и вовремя. Струя иссякла через несколько секунд, но у меня в руках была полная умывальная миска чудесной жидкости.
Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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