К предыдущему: не помню, поднимался ли где на здание выше «Высоцкого», но вообще небоскребы, конечно, одновременно пугают и будоражат: «Дубайскую башню Creek Tower Сантьяго Калатравы, высота которой, по разным данным, составит от 828 до 1400 м, будут поддерживать стальные тросы-оттяжки». Жуть!
К предыдущему: не помню, поднимался ли где на здание выше «Высоцкого», но вообще небоскребы, конечно, одновременно пугают и будоражат: «Дубайскую башню Creek Tower Сантьяго Калатравы, высота которой, по разным данным, составит от 828 до 1400 м, будут поддерживать стальные тросы-оттяжки». Жуть!
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. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. 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." Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders.
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