Мне безумно что-то напоминает история разборок вокруг Wildberries – Бакальчук, её муж, Рамзан Кадыров, штурм элитного бизнес-центра в Москве, погибший охранник.
Как же там было? Некая дама Фатима Мисикова, какой-то модный московский ресторан, ночная перестрелка возле него. И вдруг – садится Шакро Молодой, а следом за ним топ-следователи СКР.
Мне безумно что-то напоминает история разборок вокруг Wildberries – Бакальчук, её муж, Рамзан Кадыров, штурм элитного бизнес-центра в Москве, погибший охранник.
Как же там было? Некая дама Фатима Мисикова, какой-то модный московский ресторан, ночная перестрелка возле него. И вдруг – садится Шакро Молодой, а следом за ним топ-следователи СКР.
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 argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world.
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