[imustbeevil]

They can't make a cool 500 million from adding a row in their Users table for currency.

[maksimum]

I don't know if you've heard of the d2jsp forum. But the site's owner (he's essentially a 1-man operation) made a probably $10M+ by doing just that. Not sure whether this is possible (or optimal in terms of growth rate) at Telegram's scale.

[natalyarostova]

Hah, d2jsp... Haven't heard that name in a long long time.