Пришла тут рассылка от одного сервиса: «Где искать Европу в России?» Немного пугает эта фиксация на Европе – а особенно то, что ее предлагают искать в Йошкар-Оле. Если в последние двадцать с чем-то лет появилась немалая прослойка видевших и не впечатлившихся, то прямо сейчас формируется новая: не видевших и боготворящих. И это не очень здорово.
Пришла тут рассылка от одного сервиса: «Где искать Европу в России?» Немного пугает эта фиксация на Европе – а особенно то, что ее предлагают искать в Йошкар-Оле. Если в последние двадцать с чем-то лет появилась немалая прослойка видевших и не впечатлившихся, то прямо сейчас формируется новая: не видевших и боготворящих. И это не очень здорово.
"And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. 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. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%.
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