Основатель мессенджера Telegram Павел Дуров в настоящее время находится на Иссык-Куле. Основная причина приезда Павла Дурова не раскрывается. Однако в СМИ сообщают, что на Иссык-Куль его, возможно, пригласили власти Киргизии, которые рассматривают миллиардера в качестве потенциального инвестора в крупный проект. @ia-centr
Основатель мессенджера Telegram Павел Дуров в настоящее время находится на Иссык-Куле. Основная причина приезда Павла Дурова не раскрывается. Однако в СМИ сообщают, что на Иссык-Куль его, возможно, пригласили власти Киргизии, которые рассматривают миллиардера в качестве потенциального инвестора в крупный проект. @ia-centr
He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source." On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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. 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. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later.
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