❗️Просьба всем оставаться в безопасных местах. На улицу не выходить.‼️
⚠️ Если вы находитесь дома, необходимо укрыться в помещениях без окон со сплошными стенами: в коридоре, ванной, кладовой. Если вы находитесь на улице — зайдите в ближайшее здание или подходящее укрытие.
❗️Просьба всем оставаться в безопасных местах. На улицу не выходить.‼️
⚠️ Если вы находитесь дома, необходимо укрыться в помещениях без окон со сплошными стенами: в коридоре, ванной, кладовой. Если вы находитесь на улице — зайдите в ближайшее здание или подходящее укрытие.
Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. 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." 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. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks.
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