Telegram users can now list their usernames on Fragment for free without placing a starting bid:
• Once listed, the username will remain available for auction for an unlimited time – until the first bid is placed. • A 7-day auction starts as soon as anyone places the first bid. • After the auction ends, the platform fee and a one-time conversion fee will be deducted from the proceeds.
Telegram users can now list their usernames on Fragment for free without placing a starting bid:
• Once listed, the username will remain available for auction for an unlimited time – until the first bid is placed. • A 7-day auction starts as soon as anyone places the first bid. • After the auction ends, the platform fee and a one-time conversion fee will be deducted from the proceeds.
So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup.
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