What are your facades? Do you behave differently in public when you have friends with you compared to when you don’t? Do you speak differently to family vs work colleagues vs strangers? Do you relax when you are finally home, or alone (which means you were holding yourself tight before)?
Our true self is hiding under SO many layers of emotions, memories and tension, but we can start the journey, start the uncovering at any point, by noticing how we are feeling. ✨
What are your facades? Do you behave differently in public when you have friends with you compared to when you don’t? Do you speak differently to family vs work colleagues vs strangers? Do you relax when you are finally home, or alone (which means you were holding yourself tight before)?
Our true self is hiding under SO many layers of emotions, memories and tension, but we can start the journey, start the uncovering at any point, by noticing how we are feeling. ✨
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. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events."
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