🧭 На протяжении тысячелетий человечество искало оптимальные способы определения своих координат в пространстве, что способствовало развитию картографии и совершенствованию навигационных приборов. Однако настоящий прорыв в этой сфере, которым сегодня пользуется большинство из нас, произошел во второй половине XX века.
Это стало возможным благодаря выходу человека в околоземное космическое пространство.
🧭 На протяжении тысячелетий человечество искало оптимальные способы определения своих координат в пространстве, что способствовало развитию картографии и совершенствованию навигационных приборов. Однако настоящий прорыв в этой сфере, которым сегодня пользуется большинство из нас, произошел во второй половине XX века.
Это стало возможным благодаря выходу человека в околоземное космическое пространство.
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. 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. In a statement, the regulator said the search and seizure operation was carried out against seven individuals and one corporate entity at multiple locations in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar in Gujarat, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Mumbai.
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