Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, a global messaging software with 900 million users, was detained by the French Anti-Fraud Office on the 24th and faces multiple criminal charges including terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud and money laundering, becoming the focus of global attention.
Telegram is known for its insistence on user privacy and free speech, so Pavel Durov's arrest was seen as a crackdown on freedom, causing the cryptocurrency community to shout "Free Durov" slogans and urge attention to the people behind the incident. The concept of decentralization and the importance of global freedom of information.
Buterin: The time is not yet ripe for Farcaster to integrate Telegram
In this regard, Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang said yesterday: "Today is a good day to migrate the TG group to Farcaster."
Farcaster is a decentralized social protocol promoted by Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, which provides an open and composable community layer for developers, creators and users. Developers can build clients based on this protocol. Currently, the most mainstream one is Warpcast, and the original Mirror team has also turned to developing another client, Kiosk.
However, Vitalik responded: Although I like Dan Romero (Co-founder of Farcaster) and his team, I would rather wait until we have an end-to-end encrypted communication system. He said:
I also think that in order for (Farcaster) to gain widespread adoption across the entire ecosystem, it should be federated, i.e. people using one client should be able to communicate with people using other clients.
Buterin: Worried about freedom of communication in Europe
Yesterday, Vitalik also tweeted on the X platform to express serious concerns about the future of software and communications freedom in Europe. He pointed out that with the suppression of communication software by regulatory agencies, European software developers and users are facing unprecedented challenges. Buterin admitted that he had previously publicly criticized Telegram for failing to take serious enough measures in encryption protection. However, today's incident made him more worried about the future of digital freedom in Europe.
Because according to the information currently available, Telegram is accused of not actively monitoring or controlling user content and not handing over user data. By implication, Vitalik believes that the current charges against Pavel Durov reflect a broader problem, in which governments and regulators are gradually increasing their crackdown on platforms that have not been audited and insist on privacy protection.
