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Re:Russia lifts ban on Telegram by gowld on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:39PM (#23569379)
If Telegram crypto actually worked, they'd make far more money licensing the crypto than just running a chat app.
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Re:Russia lifts ban on Telegram by floatboth on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:24PM (#23569679)
Who would buy the licenses? In a world where the libraries for the Signal protocol are free, lol.
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Re:Russia lifts ban on Telegram by heckerhut on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:45PM (#23569417)
Assuming that money is what they’re after. Are you reading Durov’s channel on Telegram? Also, having invented the Russian Facebook and forcefully selling it to the Kreml - I don’t think he needs any more money. He’s playing a totally different game. I don’t know which one though.
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Re:Russia lifts ban on Telegram by sudosysgen on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:41AM (#23575543)
Pavel Durov is so mindboggingly rich that he had a good shot at being a Russian oligarch, and decided not to. I don't think that's an argument.
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