Earlier this month, members of the Liquid Federation and Blockstream attended Bitcoin Tokyo 2024, Japan’s largest annual Bitcoin gathering, to discuss the convergence of Bitcoin and Japan’s financial sector. Among the topics up for discussion was the potential role of Bitcoin layer-2 scaling technologies, including Liquid, in helping to drive a new era of innovation in global finance.
Earlier this month, members of the Liquid Federation and Blockstream attended Bitcoin Tokyo 2024, Japan’s largest annual Bitcoin gathering, to discuss the convergence of Bitcoin and Japan’s financial sector. Among the topics up for discussion was the potential role of Bitcoin layer-2 scaling technologies, including Liquid, in helping to drive a new era of innovation in global finance.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. "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. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." 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.
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