Соевые дурачки ежедневно продолжают сталкиваться с суровой действительностью и разрывом шаблонов. То дедушка Джо внезапно помилует своего сына-уголовника, а теперь и прекрасная цветущая Южная Корея, производитель волшебных стиральных машинок и чудесных автомобилей и телефонов внезапно оказывается на грани Гражданской войны. И так у них всегда.
Соевые дурачки ежедневно продолжают сталкиваться с суровой действительностью и разрывом шаблонов. То дедушка Джо внезапно помилует своего сына-уголовника, а теперь и прекрасная цветущая Южная Корея, производитель волшебных стиральных машинок и чудесных автомобилей и телефонов внезапно оказывается на грани Гражданской войны. И так у них всегда.
He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%. 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. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. 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.
from jp