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by davidgerard 1988 days ago
well, any messaging service, you're only on it for the people. Certainly the only reason I use Telegram is a few favourite chat groups.

The problem with Telegram's crypto is that Nikolai Durov is super-smart - he has two Ph.Ds in mathematics - but he thinks he's smarter than everyone else in the world put together, so Telegram roll their own crypto all the time, and keep being a worked example of why "don't roll your own crypto" is a saying.