I imagine SMS authorisation texts are Telegrams biggest single expense, they are for Signal https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Telcos know that authentication is about the only remaining use case for SMS and are not going to turn down the revenue stream.

That said this idea from Telegram sounds absurd. Not least I expect most contracts prevent reselling free SMS’s like this. The security implications have got to be significant too.

I hope it’ll be good, but I expect it won’t be.

It is a party of grievance and a campaign of grievance…. It's exhausting, it's unattractive, it makes us feel bad."

My only hope for the election is that folks are finally tired of grievance politics.

What does ‘unaffordable with fiat currencies’ even mean? This guy knows you can divide BTC right?