🇷🇺💪🏻«Живите как получится, отчаиваться не надо. Никому не желайте плохого. В марте поговорим о женщинах, 1 мая - День весны, потом лето, потом опять осень. И так, не спеша, будем идти тихо, если не будет войны. А если будет война, то победим, и каждый получит по заслугам»
🇷🇺💪🏻«Живите как получится, отчаиваться не надо. Никому не желайте плохого. В марте поговорим о женщинах, 1 мая - День весны, потом лето, потом опять осень. И так, не спеша, будем идти тихо, если не будет войны. А если будет война, то победим, и каждый получит по заслугам»
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images 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 message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion.
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