❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes ?

We are planning a giveaway with $200,000 in prizes.

This time, the giveaway will be different: $100,000 will be distributed among all participants, ensuring everyone who enters is a winner.

The remaining $100,000 will be allocated to lucky winners in larger prizes. We’re conducting a poll to gather your input on how you’d like the prizes to be divided.

BTW that’s just the beginning of a long series

Dear YesCoiners,
We are excited to announce that we are upgrading our Server Side to prepare for the upcoming V2 release! ? This essential update will bring significant improvements to our app. Please bear with us during the next few hours as there may be minor disruptions due to the server upgrade. We appreciate your understanding and patience. ?

Stay tuned for more updates! ?
Thank you,The YesCoin Team

In recent weeks, our team has been silent because we’ve been working tirelessly 24/7 to implement advanced server technology capable of supporting hundreds of millions of users for Phase 2 of Yescoin, which will be a game-changer.

In the coming weeks, we will release something revolutionary that we have been working on for months. This innovation has never been created before and will enable many of you to change your lives, becoming the true strength of Yescoin.

So far, with a bug-ridden MVP, we have reached 9 million users. Just imagine what will happen when we unveil our “one more thing.”

Hold tight, because what’s coming next will be probably everything. ?

Today is a very important day for Yescoin, as we celebrate exactly two months since our project went live. In this short time, we have achieved results that no other project in history has managed to reach, even with millions of dollars in investments.
We have built one of the largest communities in the world, with 9 million players from 200 different countries, without spending a single dollar on advertising.

Can you believe it? How did an app full of bugs that barely works manage to achieve such success?

The answer is simple: Yescoin is not just a project, but a symbol recognized by millions of people.
It represents hope for those who do not give up in the face of injustice and who, despite everything, continue to fight for their ideals.

This is what Yescoin and our community stand for?

Yescoin is now on TikTok.
Let's conquer it! ?