TON will have a strong presence at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, featuring various side events organized or co-organized by TON Society from September 14 to 22.
From the Mini App Builders Day, The Open Art in National Gallery, TON Investor Day and Memecon Conference, to the Degen Meetup 2.0, attendees can look forward to exclusive insights, unique networking opportunities, special SBTs, and much more. Discover the full list of TON side events and details here.
TON will have a strong presence at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, featuring various side events organized or co-organized by TON Society from September 14 to 22.
From the Mini App Builders Day, The Open Art in National Gallery, TON Investor Day and Memecon Conference, to the Degen Meetup 2.0, attendees can look forward to exclusive insights, unique networking opportunities, special SBTs, and much more. Discover the full list of TON side events and details here.
But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. 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. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. "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. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp.
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