📌 «Не тот блажен, кто хорошо начинает, но кто хорошо кончает подвиг свой». Это слова Аркадия (Остальского), епископа Бежецкого. Он был из тех, кто согласился принять архиерейский сан в годы прямых гонений на Русскую Церковь и тем самым подписал себе смертный приговор.
📌 «Не тот блажен, кто хорошо начинает, но кто хорошо кончает подвиг свой». Это слова Аркадия (Остальского), епископа Бежецкого. Он был из тех, кто согласился принять архиерейский сан в годы прямых гонений на Русскую Церковь и тем самым подписал себе смертный приговор.
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. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." "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.
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