It's been 3 years since I installed Telegram. I always valued like service. Now I uninstalled Whatsapp and I use Telegram every day.
I use it for chatting and social networking. Channels are not only broadcast texting, are a new way to follow a brand or someone. You can misure views, schedule post, add bottom links or polls. You never miss any post, because even a week later you have the silence notify so you can read the post.
My italian channel https://t.me/AlanBimbatiBlog has 200 members and more than 200 views per post in a week. It means a post it's always shared or reseen in other days. Telegram it's like a state-of-mind of trust. One years ago, the founder Pavel Durov received 1.7 bilion dollars to make its blockchain. There's a lot of money! And he earned it because they trust on him! Exactly one years ago, on 13th of April Telegram was blocked on Russia because it (Telegram) didn't give any byte of data.
" Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed." cit. Pavel Durov
This week, something awesome happened. The Telegram Open Network (TON) it's been released in beta version to try the blockchain in private nodes.
It can be revoluzionary because of its architecture. An Infinite Sharding paradigm that makes TON scalable and flexible, in the next link there is a video winner of the official Telegram Design Contest that advice how to use payment methods with Gram (the cryptocurrency).
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Thanks for reading.