A most likely outcome now is that a deal will be made to avoid jail time and he'll let EU do the backdoors or whatever they were asking politely first.
Telegram has also tried to distance itself from TON crypto token, but it is so obvious how it still serves the original Durov's vision and controlled by a team of founders (aka initial token holders), now proofing their stakes for a supposedly decentralized blockchain to operate.
It's not a wise idea to run "uncensored" messenger where a lot of shit happens and also offer it's users built-in non-government-surveilled payment methods.
Signal offers all of those things and the creators, developers, and operators are thus far unmolested.
They have de-emphasized the built in token and payment features, and Mobilecoin has tanked in value, but itβs still there and still works and nobody has been even detained over it, much less prosecuted.
It's unlikely that EU has the capacity to install backdoors and to monitor them. Maybe a few individual states can sort-of do that, but not all, and most likely not brussels.
Are there clear and certain rules, that cannot be interpreted differently by different judges, about how you should run the messenger? For example, are you required to ask for a phone number and passport photo to sign up, etc?
By "clear rules" I mean not something vague like "you should not cooperate with criminals" (does "criminals" include not yet convicted criminals? does it include Trump? what is "cooperate") or "you should not allow illegal content" (what is exact definition of "illegal"? how can a person declare some content "illegal" without going through the court?).
Telegram has also tried to distance itself from TON crypto token, but it is so obvious how it still serves the original Durov's vision and controlled by a team of founders (aka initial token holders), now proofing their stakes for a supposedly decentralized blockchain to operate.
It's not a wise idea to run "uncensored" messenger where a lot of shit happens and also offer it's users built-in non-government-surveilled payment methods.