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…
4) Your mobile operator (and other affiliated parties) will know you are using Telegram. In some countries this fact alone is dangerous.
5) If you want to make another tg account (for various reasons, e.g. to erase your past identity, to separate "work" and "personal" identity and many other use cases) you need to buy a new sim card.
6) You depend on your sim-card. If you loose access to it - you will loose your account if you not act quickly and move it to new number as fast as possible.
7) You can't register Telegram account if you don't have phone number at all. E.g. you only need Telegram on your PC, but you forced to buy a sim card and a phone.
Summarizing the statements above: Any time you send a message on TG - there will be your real name, address, phone number and other personal data written above the message. And with little effort - your chat history and contact list is also available.
This is not very secure and privacy-friendly.
avoid login problems if the phone number changes or if the phone is lost / stolen.
Even if we have a backup, people should be able to log in without a phone number, for example with a password or email address (more secure than SMS code that can be intercepted). Unless we configured two-step verification with a password and recovery email address, logging in using only an SMS code gives access to all encrypted messages, which is a very weak security!
In addition, you should allow logging in using a desktop app, like it was possible previously using an SMS code. Logging in using the web version without desktop or mobile app should be possible also. People that don't use Android or iOS cannot log in to the desktop app anymore unless they use a third-party client like Kotatogram (https://bugs.telegram.org/c/4239).
Users should have the choice to log in without another device even if less secure.
Because of these issues, I cannot recommend people to use Telegram.
Any other tech or concept we could use?
We need something that is open source or decentralized