Ton.Fo International

So, Telegram turns 13. All lovely — but I'd still like to know: is this MTONGA of yours in the room with us right now?

Worth remembering, by the way, that it's the TON network they want to make great, not the GRAM coin. Feel the difference?

And the network genuinely is becoming one of the most technologically advanced out there. Sub-second transactions, sharding. Really solid — especially next to ancient junk like Bitcoin.

But GRAM... who actually needs it to go up? What would change if it did? The new old name is a hint in itself: it's supposed to be something small. A gram is a lot less than a ton. In my view a fair price for it is $1. Convenient, too. Basically a stablecoin. Works for me. Does it work for you?

They say Redo’s doggies will look like this. What do you think? Personally, I think it’s kind of crap. 😁

How do you like my little plane? Pretty, isn’t it?

Overall, I actually liked the whole thing yesterday. Slick, reasonable, expensive. Pasha finally figured out how to sell a gift at the maximum price right away, instead of all those silly schemes with reselling on the secondary market for more.

This gift could potentially become the most expensive one. First, we’re unlikely to see a supply under 1,000 again. It doesn’t look very solid, considering there are a billion users. Second, it’s the Telegram logo, after all. They really shouldn’t have stuck it on a little metal badge, they should’ve put the main focus on the fact that it is the logo.

And the next auctions won’t be nearly as sweet (for the beneficiaries). Take Khabib, for example. He’ll just get his money and go back to the gym. Those gifts are purely for fans, nothing more. Remember that wrestler in the stickers? Same story.

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So, a little plane it is then. The supply is only 1,000 pieces. I can’t even check how much you need to get into the top 20. 100k stars isn’t enough. I’ve got a feeling it’ll be cheaper to buy one off someone later anyway.

Still, I’m not taking part in this madness, it’s more like entertainment for oligarchs.

Another sad thought came to mind: what’s going to happen to the Durov figurines now? They don’t look that cool anymore. Why would you need a figurine when there’s a plane?

The event’s not mine — I just posted the announcement!

A friend asked me to share it. I’ll say right away: this one’s not for the broke, the entry fee is pretty hefty. Twenty-five percent of it goes toward building a school in Nepal.

Contact with the organizers: @Sergey_pro8000

I wanted to post something thrilling and interesting too, since they finally handed me a phone, but I overestimated our swamp. Same old story, nothing worth writing about. Rumors are going around about gifts from Khabib (not the singer). Those, I’ll definitely skip. Seriously.

I'd like to speak out about the situation with TON Foundation, their plans to make their own stickers, and ScamoSanya's whining because he's being thrown overboard along with his stickers. Of course, everyone's great here.

TON Foundation announced a long time ago that there would be tokenized stickers (way before the gifts), and when Sanya started implementing them, no one from Telegram's leadership questioned this initiative. But now, when the gifts started dying off, they decided to start squeezing money out of stickers themselves.

ScamoSanya is crying that he brought a bunch of celebrities into the stickers, and no one appreciated it. Well, yeah, he did bring them, but these celebrities weren't interested in Telegram at all; they just wanted to get a bit more money to maintain their prosperous lives. In the end, all the stickers are complete crap, impossible to use—they're just regular ad integrations that were forced on ordinary users to buy.

And as per the classic, the ones who end up suffering in this situation will be the regular users who bought this crap in hopes of full integration into Telegram and complete support from TON Foundation. I don't feel sorry for ScamoSanya; I feel sorry for the people with pockets full of unofficial stickers.

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Well, how are you doing here without me? I got kinda tilted, got tired of writing in circles about how everything sucks with gifts, TON, and Telegram. You know this yourselves, and if you don't, you'll read about it on a bunch of similarly mediocre channels.

During my absence, absolutely nothing happened. Except that they promised to display the cost of gifts in the profile and some new sorting. The sorting sounds interesting, because in the current form I couldn't organize my collection properly. I haven't seen how it will be implemented yet, but if it's roughly like in the market, it'll do.

Also, now we'll have playlists from pirated music and display of the currently playing track in the status. You can also listen to others' playlists. Well, Snoop Dogg will be happy, the track rights holders not so much.

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And that’s how views drop. Time to just start posting cat memes instead of all this. Telegram’s actions are killing my channel.

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Grok drew a concept for the glasses for me. Looks like gem. 😁

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By the way, yeah, none of the new gifts have any upgrades, so it’s like freezing your money for an indefinite time. And what’s gonna happen with the gifts in, say, six months? Will they drop below cost beforehand?

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But looking at the dog concepts, the hassle seems to fade a bit. What’s with those clownish outfits? I hope the final versions have some variety.

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