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One of the wealthiest russians Roman Abramovich invested about $300M in Telegram. https://en.crimerussia.com/oligarchs/roman-abramovich-invest...
That means that Roman Abramovich is the largest investor in Telegram ($300M is 35% of $850M).
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ICOs aren't decentralized. They are tokens sold by an entity that premine them and generally control most aspects of the project. There might be exceptions, but I can't think of any.
So are you saying when Ethereum did ICO it was not decentralised? And you do realise this will have its own blockchain and only reason there needs to be a blockchain is "decentralisation".
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unless
I chose "until" specifically because finding a good use case does not justify any of the shenanigans that happened before that discovery. The word "when" doesn't carry that connotation, and "unless" doesn't either - though I'm guessing you chose it because it implies we may never find one?
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Was the Signal protocol reviewed in 2013 when Telegram was launched? It seems it was developed in 2013. I'd say the biggest problem with Telegram is the fact that E2EE isn't enabled by default and no one (that I've chatted with) uses it.
The official desktop client doesn't even support it, after years of people asking for it. Telegram is basically equivalent to Hangouts or any other random chat app, if you care about security.
Isn't their crypto implementation still private?
Given that their crypto implementation is not even actually used, this seems like a red herring. Telegram is not an encrypted messaging app.
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If I own shares of Google, there are two methods of earning money. Appreciating of the stock or dividend payments for my share of profits. ICO only offers me the speculation part.
GP may have selected GOOG because it does not pay a dividend (like BRK.A).
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Given that their crypto implementation is not even actually used, this seems like a red herring. Telegram is not an encrypted messaging app.
That's a little misleading. Telegram supports "secret chats" which are e2e encrypted. See https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-secret-chats-different and https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end