RT @Tatarigami_UA: @DefMon3: Defmon estimates 50-75%, which differs from my calculations. Our main debate centers on whether the fire atop the bunkers originates from outside or inside. If the fire is indeed internal, a 50% damage estimate could be entirely realistic.
RT @Tatarigami_UA: @DefMon3: Defmon estimates 50-75%, which differs from my calculations. Our main debate centers on whether the fire atop the bunkers originates from outside or inside. If the fire is indeed internal, a 50% damage estimate could be entirely realistic.
Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. 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. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
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