✳️ TELEGRAM | KEYNOTE ✳️

Pavel Durov Keynote at MWC 2016

🔥 Pavel Durov attended to MWC 2016 at Barcelona which was held on February 23rd.

📺 Youtube video

➡️ If you don't want to watch the video, you can read the keynote summary on the blog:

🌐Summary on Telegram Geeks

#telegram #keynote #durov #mwc

📖 Pavel DUROV, at medium.com 📖

👥 How to “hack” Telegram or The Rise of Crypto Bullshit Bingo.

"Last month we paid $5000 to a guy who found a potential vulnerability in Telegram for Android, and this month we’ve transferred $2500 to HackApp for pointing out weak spots in our iOS code. The most valuable input so far came in December 2013 from a person who found an issue in the MTProto design, so we awarded him $100,000. Whenever a potential vulnerability is found, we are the first to admit it — and fix it."

https://medium.com/@durov/how-to-hack-telegram-43dc9e6c5ac2#.nfwnen49r

#Durov #Encryption

🔥 BOTS | CONTEST 🔥

Hey guys, awesome news coming from @telegram! This year, Pavel @Durov will be giving away one million dollars to bot developers in the form of grants starting at $25,000 each!

✔️ BOT REQUIREMENTS

1⃣ It must be fast, just like the rest of Telegram’s interfaces.
2⃣ It must be useful for at least a few people out there.
3⃣ Telegram likes when bots also work in inline mode.
4⃣ Oh, and it must be fast. Keep that in mind, guys!

📝 Read moar: telegramgeeks.com/2016/04/telegram-bots-durov-will-giving-1m-dollars-bot-developers/

(Official poster inside!)

#bots #contest #durov #telegram #OneMillion

🏆 Next week, Durov will announce a new competition for Android developers from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Total prize pool: 1M rubles (~15K$) Duration - 2 weeks.
ℹ️ @geeksChannel
#Durov #Contest

Highlights of the last interview of bloomberg with Pavel Durov


▶️ TELEGRAM MONETIZATION

Another thing the Durov considers out of bounds is profit. He sees Telegram as a charity that he’ll start to monetize early next year, but only enough to fund expansion. And unlike his earlier creation, VK, which will face political pressure from the Kremlin as long as it’s based in Russia, he said Telegram can’t be bought — at any price.

▶️ TELEGRAM USERS

The encrypted messenger he’s been working on, Telegram, which he calls hack-proof, already has about 180 million users, including 40 million in Iran alone, and is luring half a million more each day.

▶️ BIG NEWS NEXT YEAR

Clad in black t-shirt and jeans, the St. Petersburg native said he’s planning to announce “something big” in the new year.

▶️ IRAN

And then there’s Iran, which recently charged Durov in absentia with crimes related to Telegram’s popularity among terrorists, human traffickers and pedophiles.

“I’m motivated by curiosity,” he said. “It’s super-interesting to see what it’s like to run the most popular social media platform in a country like Iran.”

With Twitter and Facebook banned, Telegram accounts for about 40 percent of all Iranian internet traffic, according to Techrasa, a market researcher. And that’s after local wireless carriers convinced officials to ban the encrypted voice-call function Durov rolled out in April. Telegram hosts 500,000 Farsi “channels” where users can post and curate all kinds of content that others can monitor for free.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/cryptic-russian-crusader-says-his-5-billion-app-can-t-be-bought

#durov #interview

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