The Durov brothers got screwed by the Russian government so I can imagine why unregulated money appeals to them. If they created some kind of PayPal 3.0 in their minds they would probably just be waiting to be robbed by some government(s).
> Why do everyone have to try to create another blockchain?
Because people will give you a billion dollars for it.
> Because people will give you a billion dollars for it.
Hopefully we see the end of that now. Or at least the beginning of the end.
Re:What Was TON And Why It Is Over
by ccktlmazeltov on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:57AM
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Why are you a long time Telegran fan considering that their end-to-end encryption sucks in comparison to WhatsApp, Signal, et al
Their product was (and still is) superior in its user-facing features.
Re:What Was TON And Why It Is Over
by throwaway391003 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:18AM
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Agreed, it's so fast and simple but quite powerful too if you care to dig deeper
Re:What Was TON And Why It Is Over
by ccktlmazeltov on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:32PM
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who cares about security right?
Why do everyone have to try to create another blockchain?
Why can't companies just be honest enough to either name a price up front or make a freemium model or something?
Hopefully this will cause them to reconsider payments like old WhatsApp or something else that aligns with the interests of the users?
Edit: add second part of a broken sentence. Also: the niche that WhatsApp used to hold (paid, reasonable price, good ux, no ads or spying) still isn't too crowded.
Signal is important and I am happy to recommend it but there's a lot of room still for others who want to enter the small communities/group-of-friends messaging space. The best alternatives I have found so far are: MeWe (pretty close to Google+, but with a business model that isn't based on selling data or ads), Telegram and of course still WhatsApp if you can stomach it.