"И тут К. показалось, словно с ним порвали всякую связь, и хотя он теперь свободнее, чем прежде, и может тут, в запретном для него месте, ждать сколько ему угодно, да и завоевал он себе эту свободу, как никто не сумел бы завоевать, и теперь его не могли тронуть или прогнать, но в то же время он с такой же силой ощущал, что не могло быть ничего бессмысленнее, ничего отчаяннее, чем эта свобода, это ожидание, эта неуязвимость."
"И тут К. показалось, словно с ним порвали всякую связь, и хотя он теперь свободнее, чем прежде, и может тут, в запретном для него месте, ждать сколько ему угодно, да и завоевал он себе эту свободу, как никто не сумел бы завоевать, и теперь его не могли тронуть или прогнать, но в то же время он с такой же силой ощущал, что не могло быть ничего бессмысленнее, ничего отчаяннее, чем эта свобода, это ожидание, эта неуязвимость."
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 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. 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." Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee.
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