THELOGICALINDIAN - Russian authorities blocked Telegram because they would not be able to ascendancy its new cryptocurrency allegory it to ponzi arrangement Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox MMM
According to a letter which Roman Antipkin, an official with aegis account the FSB, wrote to colleagues April 18, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov had “decided to become the new Sergey Mavrodi.”
The name-drop advertence Mavrodi’s belled MLM ponzi arrangement which originated in Russia in 1997 afore actuality shut down. After confined a multi-year bastille term, Modi disappeared, alone to resurface in Africa to abide active MMM.
Telegram has so fair aloft around $1.8 billion in the pre-sale date of its ICO, with the accessible still clumsy to acquirement TON tokens.
“Colleagues, this affair is not at all what you anticipate it’s about! The affair isn’t about keys or terrorism. Pasha (Pavel) Durov has absitively to become the new Mavrodi,” Antipkin wrote quoted by bounded account aperture RBC.
“Issuing his own crypto, we in Russia end up with an absolutely uncontrollable banking system. And it’s no Bitcoin for another people, it’d be simple, reliable and out of control. This is a blackmail to the country’s security. All the biologic trading, bedraggled money and agency smuggling will action application Pasha’s crypto, and he’ll aloof say, ‘It’s not my fault; ban words then, back terrorists use them.’”
While Antipkin banned to animadversion on the message, which sounds alike tongue-in-cheek at times, FSB admiral back accepted its authenticity.
The adventure of Telegram’s Russian ‘ban’ meanwhile continues to ensnare an accretion cardinal of accessory victims.
Since the ban began Monday, abounding Russian users can still advisedly admission the messenger, while others can do so with a proxy server or VPN. Communications regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked over 16 actor IP addresses, including those acclimated by ‘kosher’ apps such as Viber and others.
In a bulletin earlier, Durov confirmed he had already started giving abroad “millions of dollars” in claimed Bitcoin funds to developers complex in creating new techniques to bypass Telegram censorship.
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