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TELEGRAM ADDS CRYPTO TO ITS SERVICE

Posted on by Max Lerner

TELEGRAM ADDS CRYPTO TO ITS SERVICE

Telegram has done it again. Once again it shows the world that it is much more than just a messaging app. After innovating in the market with tools such as animated stickers, it is now coming up with a proposal that promises to change everything.

According to official sources, the company stated that it is already in the process of developing a platform for the auction of usernames, using various cryptocurrencies as payment methods. The statement also reports that this project is already in its final phase and it may not be too long before we see the result.

 

THE PRECEDENT: THE TELEGRAM NETWORK

It all started about 4 years ago, when the company initiated a decentralisation project, under the name “The Telegram Network”. However, legal problems associated with the intellectual property of the ton.org domain (The Open Network) limited the company’s plans.

To avoid another lawsuit and the possible loss of the ton.org domain, it was decided to shut it down in 2020 and disassociate itself from it. It did this by separating all of its businesses into individual entities, each with its own leadership and resources. Once this was done, he enlisted the help of Telegram to regain control of ton.org.

THE PRECEDENT: THE TELEGRAM NETWORK

This experience created in Pavel Durov, co-founder of Telegram, a special interest in the ability of this platform to make revenue from domain auctions, and he even mentioned his interest in incorporating Web3 into the project.

And so, after a few years of development, Telegram announced through its official channel the final stage of development of its new platform, through which usernames can be acquired through crypto auctions.

 

A MILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS

But … wait a minute, selling names? user auctions? Could such a business really work? Just take a quick look at the precedents, just from “The Open Network”.

If you think about it, the company’s plan is not far from what is already known today as buying domain names. Some of them have been bought for exorbitantly high amounts.

Likewise, the TON platform once held an open auction of names for its wallets. The initiative was especially profitable, finding cases such as “casino.ton”, which sold for more than 200,000 dollars.

This fact, considering Telegram’s platform of more than 700 million users, represents a particularly juicy and attractive business opportunity for the whales of the Internet. Especially when we consider that Telegram currently only allows the registration of one user with the same name. This includes: channels, users, video porno, etc.

telegram A MILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS

This being one of the messaging apps of the moment, where more and more brands want to be, it would not be surprising to see a powerful bid between two major forces, for example. The same would happen with two celebrities or multimillionaires willing to pay anything to have the username they always wanted.

And you, would you be willing to give everything in your wallet for the most sought-after username on Telegram?

 

 

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WHAT IS THE MOST SECURE MESSAGING APP?

Posted on by Max Lerner
WHAT IS THE MOST SECURE MESSAGING APP?
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We live to communicate. Thanks to the current innovation in ICTs, our modern society conceives as deviant the individual who does not care at all about things such as the Internet, social networks or messaging applications.
Whoever likes it likes it, we are slaves to Whatsapp, Telegram or Signal, which have a leading role in our daily lives similar to that of toilet paper.

For this reason, and understanding that its use is daily and that it serves as a window to share how much information we have, it is not surprising that we worry about what will be the most secure option.

 

WHATSAPP IS THE MOST POPULAR, BUT NOT THE MOST SAFE

We know that applications like WhatsApp or Telegram currently boast of being unbreakable due to their end-to-end encryption protocol, which prevents a third party from accessing your private conversations. Certainly, although with their clear differences, each one has a similar version. This is stated by Manuel Sánchez Rubio, a doctor in Computer Engineering and a specialist in security and obtaining information on social networks.

However, Sánchez Rubio himself affirms that the “security” problem is not exactly there, where the big companies want us to look.

To understand it better, it is enough to reflect a little about the new privacy policies implemented by WhatsApp and that came into force as of May 15, 2022. Outside of users located in the European Union, all those who currently use WhatsApp, they do so having agreed to the platform sharing their data and information with their parent company. A track. His name starts with F (or M?), and he loves blue.

This only deepens the distrust that many had already felt in 2014, when Facebook decided to buy WhatsApp and make it part of its social network ecosystem porno français. In response, more conscientious users decided to move to alternatives like Telegram, which currently have these and many other features.

 

WHAT ABOUT TELEGRAM?

Before talking about any function that Telegram may or may not have to provide a more friendly or secure user experience, let’s remember one thing: it is an application behind which, like any other, there is a company trying to profit. Therefore, we must assume that, if they do not take your money, they take something equal or more valuable from you, in exchange for an efficient, playful and free service.

I think we know what it is: information. It is not unreasonable or conspiracy to think so. We talk about facts.
According to Sánchez Rubio, we have maximized the interest, use and attention that we put into social networks, and now we see the consequence of it. Faced with the latent need to “want to be part” of “what is happening in the world (Internet)”, we decided to ignore the fact that there are those who silently spy on us.

WHAT ABOUT TELEGRAM?
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From his perspective, Sánchez Rubio condemns modern society for its optimism in the face of these platforms. A naivete where we let ourselves be fooled by the ludic, and we forget the densest implications, the problems that nobody wants to worry about.

So, to wrap up the question: what is the most secure messaging app? The answer is simple: none. They are all just as safe and just as dangerous, because releasing your information into the vast data network that the internet connects already leaves you exposed.

Faced with this, Sánchez Rubio suggests an efficient and much-needed digital education as an alternative, especially in the use of technology at a young age. Only then, he wants to think, can we be (or at least feel) a little safer in this digital world.

 

 

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