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Popular messenger Telegram now allows users to open accounts without having to provide their mobile phone numbers. With the app’s latest update, they can log in with blockchain-based numbers instead, and they can be purchased with cryptocurrency on the Fragment platform.
One of the most popular messaging services in the crypto community, Telegram, has released a new update to its application. Messenger now allows users to have an account without linking a mobile phone number, an option that takes privacy to a new level, according to an announcement which insisted:
Today begins a new era of privacy. You can have a Telegram account without a SIM card.
“On Telegram, your phone number was never visible to strangers – our users control who can see their number and whether others are allowed to find them using their phone number,” the Telegram team reminded.
From now on, however, they won’t even need one to set up a new account with Telegram. Instead, they will be able to log in using blockchain-powered numbers, which will be anonymous, the statement revealed on Tuesday.
The numbers will be available on Fragment, and can be purchased with toncoin (TON), the cryptocurrency used on the decentralized Open Network blockchain originally designed by Telegram. Fragment launched in late October as a blockchain auction platform and also sells usernames.
Since May, Telegram users can send and receive toncoin directly in the chats. In 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a case against Telegram over the toncoin project, but in 2020 the messenger took up with the regulator.
Another privacy-oriented feature that comes with this update lets you set up a global timer to automatically delete messages in all new chats. It can also be used on existing chats. Self-destructing messages were introduced in 2013, but this new option expands user control, the company pointed out.
In June, Telegram announced it was launching a premium tier of services, seeking to monetize the platform, which has over 700 million monthly users. And in August, founder and CEO Pavel Durov hinted at a number of upcoming Web3 improvements, talking about the benefits of reserved and tradable usernames, and group and channel links for auction.
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