"In Norwegen wird eine Bitcoin-Farm nach Bürgerprotesten geschlossen. Folge: Der Strompreis vor Ort steigt. Die Bitcoin-Farm trug nämlich dazu bei, die Stromnetze zu entlasten. Norwegen bezieht einen großen Teil seines Stroms aus erneuerbaren Energiequellen, für die Netze ist das eine große Herausforderung."
"In Norwegen wird eine Bitcoin-Farm nach Bürgerprotesten geschlossen. Folge: Der Strompreis vor Ort steigt. Die Bitcoin-Farm trug nämlich dazu bei, die Stromnetze zu entlasten. Norwegen bezieht einen großen Teil seines Stroms aus erneuerbaren Energiequellen, für die Netze ist das eine große Herausforderung."
Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. The perpetrators use various names to carry out the investment scams. They may also impersonate or clone licensed capital market intermediaries by using the names, logos, credentials, websites and other details of the legitimate entities to promote the illegal schemes. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. 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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