Telegram to award grants to bot developers

dsp1234 wrote: post #3

johnieeboy wrote: post #2

So you have to make the bot first and then be awarded the grant?

I wonder if they are calling it a grant for tax planning purposes.

I thought the wording was a little bit strange. You could be right. What would be the implications for me as a developer to receive a grant?

Re: Telegram to award grants to bot developers

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Post by deskamess » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 8:42 PM UTC

The "We like it when bots also work in >inline mode<" link is missing the p in https.

Re: Telegram to award grants to bot developers

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Post by kpcyrd » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 8:43 PM UTC

I've noticed bots seem to be quite popular for telegram. Is there any way to provide the same to signal users?

Re: Telegram to award grants to bot developers

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Post by CiPHPerCoder » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

If they have $1M to invest, why don't they focus on securing their protocol (i.e. switching to authenticated encryption) and turning encryption on by default?

See http://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf for more on why Telegram isn't secure and you shouldn't trust it (as it is today) for anything requiring privacy.

Re: Telegram to award grants to bot developers

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Post by rubidium » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 8:51 PM UTC

johnieeboy wrote: post #5

dsp1234 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they are calling it a grant for tax planning purposes.

I thought the wording was a little bit strange. You could be right. What would be the implications for me as a developer to receive a grant?

It depends on if it's you or your company.

For academics, when you get a fellowship or grant that must be recorded on the 1099-misc in the united states. And you pay full taxes as an independent contractor.

I am not a lawyer nor am I an accountant. This is not legal or tax advice :)

Re: Telegram to award grants to bot developers

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Post by educar » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 8:52 PM UTC

So telegram is a non-profit. And they splurge 1M USD? What am I missing?

Edit: to clarify, what I meant is that I expected non-profits to make good use of their money and not give away large sums of money in prize competitions. Certainly, no NGO or non-profit I know of does this. Raises a red flag for me.