Telegram has had crypto focus since ~2020, to the point of spamming me in chats with “sponsored” (official!) messages to buy their shady token a couple of years ago, and spawning a grey market to buy and sell usernames with crypto auctions.

Signal tried including an own crypto token for in-app psyments as well (of this bunch, it’s the only company I have some compassion for - they need to make money somehow, and didn’t want to compromise the core model) but the backlash was insane and they either hid it really deep in the app, or just gave up entirely

It is the 202* (brainless) CEO red flag. Don’t make money? Try speculating on crypto and saying it is your new core business

Proudly tested by teams at

• Twitter
• Tesla
• Signal
• Discord
• Telegram
• Facebook
• tens of others I have forgotten, but which also miserably failed

Further proof of how isolated these CEOs live from the real world

Although I am not experienced with iPhone prices, shouldn’t a non-official replacement cost somewhere between $30 and $50? I tend to repair my Android phone batteries every 2-3 years at home, and alongside light software mods they become impressively more usable in the long run.