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2019-06-08 23:25:40 NEWS OF THE WEEK Updates: - Telegram for iOS source code updated to v5.7 - Telegram for Android source code updated to v5.7.1 - Public groups got enabled for users from Vietnam and the Philippines. (Source) Readworthy: - Pavel Durov (the founder of… Open / Comment

2019-06-08 14:57:24 NEWS OF THE WEEK

Updates:

- Telegram for iOS source code updated to v5.7
- Telegram for Android source code updated to v5.7.1
- Public groups got enabled for users from Vietnam and the Philippines. (Source)

Readworthy:

- Pavel Durov (the founder of Telegram) decides to consume no food at all this month.
Read his post on his channel or this article by The Independet.

- Pavel Durov plans to launch an independent news aggregator not limited by censorship.
Instant View already allows you to read the news of 6000 publications worldwide from any device, and the statistics of their views in each country allows Telegram to algorithmically calculate the most relevant content at the moment. Read more...
Source: Pavel Durov's Telegram channel in russian language

- Telegram might develop a way to split a group chat into subgroups similar to this.
There are still many open questions and design decisions to make, figuring out all the details might be worthy of a prize by @durov.

Game of the Week:
Rocket Mania (play against other subscribers at @playingfield - see the pinned message) Open / Comment

2019-06-03 01:27:10 This is a short summary to bring you up to date about last years developments. A detailed analysis will follow soon. Telegram Open Network ICO Telegram is planning to launch a blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency. They put together an Initial Coin… Open / Comment

2019-06-03 01:20:12 This is a short summary to bring you up to date about last years developments. A detailed analysis will follow soon.

Telegram Open Network ICO

Telegram is planning to launch a blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency.

They put together an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to fund development of a new blockchain platform, to be called the "Telegram Open Network" (TON). The offering was organised as a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens), selling futures on tokens to be called GRAM.

In February 2018, during the first round of the ICO 2.25 billion tokens (45% of the total number of future Grams) were sold at a price about $0.5 per token. The minimum amount of investment to participate in this round was $20 million. Then the second round of token offering began.
During both placements 2.89 billion tokens were sold (58% of the total number of future Grams).

As of April 2018, Telegram had reported raising $1.7 billion through the ongoing ICO.

Only the pre-ICO rounds were conducted; the public ICO was cancelled because Telegram raised enough money in the pre-ICO rounds. The network has yet to be released. Open / Comment

2019-06-02 01:35:23 Open / Comment

2019-06-02 01:35:21 One thing I will post after every major update is a poll - and a review about what you thought about the last update. Since this is the first poll, there is no review now, but there will with the following polls. Open / Comment

2019-06-02 00:59:32 Hello Friends! I'm sorry for being so silent for almost half a year. I'll be posting more regularly again, focusing on the most important news related to Telegram in a few messages per month. We start this year belated with a look back at last year's new… Open / Comment

2018-02-02 15:48:42 Hello Friends! My favourite post of the year (and the most impressive one) is this one, the summary of last year's new features. Telegram introduced a lot of great new features. I tried to keep this list as short as possible, and still, it's longer than… Open / Comment

2018-02-01 19:03:08 Telegram is back in the AppStore! Open / Comment

2018-02-01 15:00:20 Telegram will be back in the iOS App Store! Open / Comment