“Within the last two days, Russia blocked over 15 million IP addresses in attempts to ban Telegram on its territory. Regardless, Telegram remained available for the majority of Russia’s residents”
It is durov’s last tweet on Twitter which means Russian government have started to ban their own messenger Telegram. Telegram has millions of users in Russia and known as national messenger there. Thus, why Russian government prefer their people to use other messengers even foreign services? Is it all about privacy? Russia forced telegram to give it’s own crypto keys to the government because the government claim that, two attackers who engaged in a terrorism operation on 2017 had used telegram to contact each other. Also, Russia will host FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 games and it is usual to be nervous about it. This means Russian government’s efforts to ban telegram will remain only for a short time. Until the end of the games. In the other case which is more possible, Russia tries to ban telegram in order to keeps people far away from TON (TELEGRAN OPEN NETWORK). TON is a blockchain based platform which has it’s own cryptocurrency” Gram.” The most important issue about TON is financial issue. TON will use it’s own money through the network that will encourage people to change their fiat monies to Gram. This will cause decreasing money transection through bank networks and it will not be acceptable for the government. Some thing like what happened to "WE CHAT" in china. Also, using blockchain platform will make it possible to stay anonymous for any one. In other word TON will be an smart upgrade for TOR but more friendly and easy to use. Also, with less security for sure.
Entering blockchain area is a great move for a messenger with millions of users. Supporting telegram at this moment is a duty for blockchain lovers. After google, facebook and even twitter which do not support blockchain, now it is our turn. It is not important where you live just be aware. Digital resistance have began in Russia. Soon it will begin in your country. It is not a joke, Iranian government said they will ban telegram soon ( with more than 40 millions of Iranian users). Also, European countries started to do an action about telegram. We are not sure what will happen to this messenger but we should support it.
Join digital resistance and support telegram!