Фотографии с первого дня процесса над Николя Саркози и ещё 11 обвиняемыми по "делу о ливийских деньгах" (они же - "деньги Каддафи"). На фото: экс-президент Франции, а также трое обвиняемых бывших министров его правительства: Эрик Вёрт, Брис Ортофё и Клод Геан (двое последних возглавляли МВД). Подробно о процессе - в материале RFI. Фото: Y. SAFRONOV, RFI
Фотографии с первого дня процесса над Николя Саркози и ещё 11 обвиняемыми по "делу о ливийских деньгах" (они же - "деньги Каддафи"). На фото: экс-президент Франции, а также трое обвиняемых бывших министров его правительства: Эрик Вёрт, Брис Ортофё и Клод Геан (двое последних возглавляли МВД). Подробно о процессе - в материале RFI. Фото: Y. SAFRONOV, RFI
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. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free Update March 8, 2022: EFF has clarified that Channels and Groups are not fully encrypted, end-to-end, updated our post to link to Telegram’s FAQ for Cloud and Secret chats, updated to clarify that auto-delete is available for group and channel admins, and added some additional links. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation.
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