The real reason of blocking Telegram, avantgarde messenger in post-soviet countries, by Russian government was the probability of creating the brand new cryptocurrency on the platform of Telegram by its founder Pavel Durov.

According to RBC, when the Russian government started blocking the messaging platform by making several mistakes as cutting Ip-Addresses of cloud services of Amazon, Google etc.. RosComNadzor is trying to find the way to block the service former CEO of Vkontakte, another social platform for online services.

As RBC notes that FSB agent Roman Antipkin mailed to his coworkers with a note of the main reason for banning. According to Mr. Antipkin, Pavel Durov tried to launch “a full decontrolled financial system” on the base of Telegram. The origin of the message has been proven by a federal official from FSB.


Earlier, in January of 2018, it was revealed that Pavel Durov is intending to launch blockchain platform named Telegram Open Network (TON) with the cryptocurrency of Gram. The project was explained by Nikolay Durov, CTO of Telegram and brother of Pavel Durov, in official papers. Founders are planning to promote payment system on the of Telegram, and, then, to adapt it to other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter.

As reported earlier, the result of closed 2 round offerings of TON’s tokens got an investment with the amount of 1,7 billion US dollars. At the beginning of this week, CEO and Founder of Telegram Mr. Durov told the results of the first day of blocking the Telegram in the territory of Russia and began to work on creating the Digital Confrontation, the decentralized movement for digital liberty and internet progress.

by Zholdas Orisbay

April 20, 2018 @ 17:55

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