✨ Незаметно наступает время волшебства и надежды. В воздухе уже чувствуется особая атмосфера. Улицы украшены яркими огоньками, которые сверкают как звезды, и каждый уголок города наполняется ожиданием чуда. И всё-таки Нарьян-Мар прекрасен!
✨ Незаметно наступает время волшебства и надежды. В воздухе уже чувствуется особая атмосфера. Улицы украшены яркими огоньками, которые сверкают как звезды, и каждый уголок города наполняется ожиданием чуда. И всё-таки Нарьян-Мар прекрасен!
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. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. "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.
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