Anonymity of the next level. Now you can signup on Telegram using anonymous phone number.

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In my previous blog I have already told you about the FRAGMENT platform (fragment.com). I recommend you to read it, because this article is a continuation of the topic that I have discussed previously. In short, in the penultimate update Telegram presented the function of buying and selling @usernames through the fragment.com. And since the last update, you can buy virtual telephone number for Telegram account through the same platform.

It all started with the discussion between Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey on Twitter. The subject of discussion was the telephone number verification on Twitter account. On the 6th of December Pavel Durov (founder, CEO at Telegram, founder, ex-CEO of VKontakte) thanked them for the feedback and announced a new Telegram update (Illustration 1)

Illustration 1. Pavels Durov tweet with the Telegram update announcement.

Now, lat’s move on to telephone numbers themselves. The Telegram telephone number (starts with +888) is an NFT, that is connected with your TON wallet and can be used for the telegram account verification, sold or putted up on the auction. Just like with @usernames. On fragment.com there are two ways of buying a number. Firstly, you can buy a particular number from other users. Some of them are placed on sale at a fixed price, some are putted up for auction. At the moment prices start from the 15 TON (for ordinary ones without specific combinations of numbers), and can reach more than 55.000 TON (for rare and beautiful ones) (Illustration 2).

Illustration 2. The screenshot from fragment.com, top price numbers.

Additionally, it should be mentioned that starting on December 13 at 12PM UTC the price for the random number is increasing for 1 TON every 3 hours until it reaches 99 TON, at which point these numbers will be removed from sale. This news boost user’s interest and uncreased both amount of sales and the price of TONcoin (its price increased from 1.8$ to 2.8$, now it is currently trading an 2.4$ (Illustration 3)).

Illustration 3. Toncoin to USD chart from coinmarketcap.com

To talk about the anonymity, I believe that it is a new step in this sphere. To buy an ordinary phone number, you need your passport information. To buy a telegram prone number, you need only a TON wallet. And even though every person in the internet can check any TON wallet with its balance, NFTs and transactions, no one can tell who owns the wallet and its contents. And that is the anonymity.

In conclusion, the telegram keep developing its projects. Telegram is becoming something more than just a messenger. It is developing it’s own eco-system with using cryptocurrency, NFT and other modern market trends. And even though internet anonymity is conventional topic, `I believe that it is the future.

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