Cryptocurrency donations for bots, groups and channels
Show a button for sending quick donations to maintainers of bots, groups or channels using cryptocurrency. This could use either an established cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Etherium, EOS, etc. – or some…
However, some methods could be:
- rate of growth
- number of chats
- number of users who have /start-ed
To avoid people gaming the system, it would be fine for the "verification" to require interaction, eg:
- botfather sends a "you can verify your bot" prompt when it gets big enough
- request verification through bot support/verifybot who can check the bot stats and approve/disapprove
I'm the developer of @MentionRobot, @MentionMirrorbot and @MentionTestBot.
I recently discovered that there were dozens of fakes of my bots on Telegram.
A user wrote to me to complain that my bot had deleted all of his chat members.
When I checked everything, it turned out that he had added a fake bot. This fake bot had deleted all of his chat members!
This is terrible.
I wrote an email with a list of fake bots on abuse@telegram.org and now I'm waiting for an answer. But verifying popular bots would be a very good option against fakes.
I attached screenshots of this case. And there are dozens of such fakes.