Побывал на открытии «Уникальной России» – крупнейшей в стране выставки традиционных искусств. Между прочим, сам выковал там две сувенирные монеты. Первую посвятил истории России: на одной ее стороне Петр I, на другой – Михаил Илларионович Кутузов. А вторую отчеканил в честь славных ВДВ. В Воздушно-десантных войсках я служил срочную и по сей день горжусь званием гвардии старшего сержанта запаса ВДВ. И пусть кувалда у меня в руках никого не смущает. Мне, как настоящему русскому человеку, по руке и автомат, и кузнечный молот.
Побывал на открытии «Уникальной России» – крупнейшей в стране выставки традиционных искусств. Между прочим, сам выковал там две сувенирные монеты. Первую посвятил истории России: на одной ее стороне Петр I, на другой – Михаил Илларионович Кутузов. А вторую отчеканил в честь славных ВДВ. В Воздушно-десантных войсках я служил срочную и по сей день горжусь званием гвардии старшего сержанта запаса ВДВ. И пусть кувалда у меня в руках никого не смущает. Мне, как настоящему русскому человеку, по руке и автомат, и кузнечный молот.
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. 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." Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
from jp
