Telegram raises $210M through bond sales

Post by qlkjwenf » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

Longhanks wrote: post #11

sedatk wrote: post #8

> the Dubai-headquartered firm huh, I thought Telegram was still stationed in Germany. I wonder what made them move.

Extreme taxes compared to Dubai, a government (or the EU on that matter) wanting to permanently dismantle end-to-end encryption, slow local authorities (however I don’t know the situation in Dubai concerning that - I assume though nearly every state on the earth is more efficient than Germany regarding bureaucracy), local authorities that often can’t communicate in English... Germany is not an attractive place for sm…

Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 5:42 AM UTC

Thoeu388 wrote: post #9

chologrande wrote: post #6

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Sure - but where's the revenue come from?

How much revenue do they need to generate for $250M investment? Paid version with extra features, $40M per year, and they will do fine.

Post by Amfy » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 5:48 AM UTC

qlkjwenf wrote: post #21

Longhanks wrote: post #11

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Extreme taxes compared to Dubai, a government (or the EU on that matter) wanting to permanently dismantle end-to-end encryption, slow local authorities (however I don’t know the situation in Dubai concerning that - I assume though nearly every state on the earth is more efficient than Germany regarding bureaucracy), local authorities that often can’t communicate in English... Germany is not an attractive place for sm…

Yeah, and tax authorities who refuse to communicate by using anything else but paper documents sent as letters... Glad I will leave Germany soon.

Post by DANmode » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 5:51 AM UTC

sethherr wrote: post #5

Thoeu388 wrote: post #4

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Telegram is one social network that has a huge potential for growth today. It is a dominant platform for War reporting from both sides. And it is not compromised by history of censorship, and CIA connections, like other social networks. We will probably see it growing in US, as we get closer to elections, and censorship tightens!

It is compromised by Russian connections though

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 5:56 AM UTC

Thoeu388 wrote: post #26

pavlov wrote: post #12

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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a fallacy that does seem to be driving increasing numbers of Americans to positions that are indistinguishable from Russian talking points. Saves money for Putin’s troll factory at least.

Is there any other solid alternative? Gab? Or Twitter under Musk? Or some other federated network? What platform would you recommend to people in Turkey, Iran, Africa... Or opposition in West that sometimes can not even get bank accounts? It is a serious question! Russia is far away, it is not going to put you in jail. We need to communicate.