Telegram and the Cypherpunk Rebellion Against the Libra Empire

August 11, 2019    Bookmark    https://hackernoon.com/telegram-and-the-rebirth-of-the-cypherpunk-revolution-g61l320rf

And even with less users, Telegram has one major advantage: Most Facebook users wouldn’t know a Bitcoin from an Alf Pog while Telegram has a vibrant, technically savvy community, including most of the world’s crypto-faithful who host their user groups and do their day-to-day business there.
That means when TON drops a bunch of coins in its Telegram attached wallet, a bigger percentage of those users will know how to spend, save and send that money, while Facebook’s users will start ringing the support lines wondering how to reset the password on their private key.

Daniel Jeffries