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Oɴʟɪɴᴇ Oʟɪᴍᴘɪᴀᴅᴀ @𝒪𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓃ℯ𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓂𝓅𝒾𝒶𝒹𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓇_𝒰𝓏𝒷 Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?
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. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried.
Oɴʟɪɴᴇ Oʟɪᴍᴘɪᴀᴅᴀ @𝒪𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓃ℯ𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓂𝓅𝒾𝒶𝒹𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓇_𝒰𝓏𝒷 from MS