Друзья, у нас ответственная и на редкость приятная миссия: передать вам новогодние поздравления от наших авторов! Пусть эти теплые слова согреют вас накануне праздника, а пожелания обязательно сбудутся в новом 2025-м (любви накопилось так много, что все поздравления не уместились в одной галерее — завтра принесем еще!) 🎅
Друзья, у нас ответственная и на редкость приятная миссия: передать вам новогодние поздравления от наших авторов! Пусть эти теплые слова согреют вас накануне праздника, а пожелания обязательно сбудутся в новом 2025-м (любви накопилось так много, что все поздравления не уместились в одной галерее — завтра принесем еще!) 🎅
Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. 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. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war.
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