[IntelMiner]

I know several users who've had their names and channels stolen by this absolutely fucking asinine idea from Durov

It comes off the back of him trying to fuck over users with NFT's of all things, which received something like 30K "thumbs down" emojis (to about 800 "thumbs up") before having the counter removed

I don't know why Durov can't just do what Discord does and offer Premium. Premium garnered a less than stellar reception, but comes with actual features that users might want (increased GIF cache, bigger file download limits etc)

[neongreen]

Telegram has had Premium for a few months already: https://telegram.org/blog/700-million-and-premium