(Verantwortlich sind jeweils Bürger vor Ort, wir stellen hier eine Zusammenfassung zur Verfügung und sind nicht Organisator der jeweiligen Aktionen, Spaziergänge, Versammlungen, Umzüge usw. Weitere Infos findet Ihr bei den Telegramgruppen vor Ort.)
(Verantwortlich sind jeweils Bürger vor Ort, wir stellen hier eine Zusammenfassung zur Verfügung und sind nicht Organisator der jeweiligen Aktionen, Spaziergänge, Versammlungen, Umzüge usw. Weitere Infos findet Ihr bei den Telegramgruppen vor Ort.)
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks.
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