About a marvelous new cryptomor

The Durov brothers are preparing to change the rules of the game on the Internet for $ 1.2 billion: how to relate to this?

At the end of 2017, the CryptoStovest news agency, specializing in encryption technologies, produced an authorized leakage of information about the new project of the Paul brothers and Nikolai Durov - Ton (Telegram Open Network). More than a month has passed since the publication of two documents describing the Ton - advertising prospectus and technical description, but the world public is still confused, not knowing how to respond to the fact that by all signs it claims to revolution and significantly comparable to the birth of the Internet itself.

The difficulty of evaluating and perception of Ton follows not so much from the engineering component of the project that uses a wide range of information and cryptocurrency technologies as from its scale. In case of successful implementation, Ton will radically change the key aspects of the modern life of the society: a system of financial relations, contractual obligations, communications of all levels, and even the principles of interaction between the state and the individual.

I suggest readers to consider Ton in the entirety of its contexts, without which this project loses its innovative aura.

Cryptocurrencies have existed for a long time (1384 pieces at the time of writing the article). Blockchain platforms live in almost every bank, not to mention such an authoritative universal site as Etherium. Remote and distributed data storage implement hundreds of services like Dropbox and Google Drive. The uncountable number of torrent trackers offers a decentralized data exchange. Anonymous domain names and virtual private networks provide both commercial and free structures, such as the legendary Tor Network. We know about digital cash since time immemorial from PayPal and WebMoney. Even the combination of the functions of the messenger with electronic payments is implemented on an epic scale by Chinese WeChat.

The grandeur of the ambitions of the new project of the Durov brothers consists precisely that Ton claims no less for uniting all the listed services on a single site,

Moreover, not hypothetical from the distant future, but an existing, and even with 170 million devoted users. Such a platform for the implementation of Ton is the popular Telegram messenger, well familiar to the Russians in theatrical wrestling with Roskomnadzor, which unfolded last year to the media applause.

In the advertising avenue of Ton, the Telegram messenger is highlighted, since only he has the potential to relax cryptotechnologies, accessible to the understanding of a handful of computer geeks, with broad masses. According to developers, existing cryptocurrencies (bitcoin, Eterium, etc.) live in an isolated ecosystem and therefore cannot compete with ordinary money. Ordinary people do not understand the principles of the existence of cryptocurrencies and do not see anything behind them other than the prospects of short -term pseudo -rope speculations.

Somewhere someone “miner”, someone bought it on the dollar, and sold 20 thousand each for.-That's all that knows the uninitiated world about Bitcoin.

With blockchain, things are even sadder. If bitcoin can somehow be correlated with digital money (like digicash or webmoney), the new technology of distributed storage of information (which is the blockchain) has no analogues in the real world, it cannot be felt either with hands or thoughts, and therefore exhortations of specialists, that the blockchain will become the basis of all the contractual relations air.

It is planned that the Ton will combine all promising cryptotechnologies with technically neuropted humanity precisely because the services will be implemented on the basis of the already familiar message exchange program.

You will not have to attach any efforts to understand complex technologies. After the fully implemented TONs, the Telegram messenger will be built into a “lightweight wallet” for calculations using the GRAM universal cryptocurrency. The “third -generation blockchain”, capable of self -study and self -correction that exclude the malfunctions of modern cryptocurrency operations, will allow users of Telegram to enter into any contractual relationship among themselves, especially since their identity will be confirmed by a “safe digital passport”.

Valuable files and documents can be safely stored, as well as it is safe to exchange them, in the “distributed data storage module”; At the same time, the entire virtual life of the happy users Telegram will be securely hidden from annoying corporate and state control using anonymous proxy server and the “virtual private network” created on its basis, and traces of search queries will hide the “anonymous system of domain names”.

To buy and sell everything and all without control will allow the future friendly payment system, integrated into the “telegram”, and any other needs can be realized with a special platform to create third -party applications.

The reader probably already realized what the “open network of telegrams” swung: not just a potential substance of existing realities is built in front of us (starting from the banking system, monetary relations, trade and the entire Internet as a whole), and genuine cryptopotopia is a new, closed in itself and parallel reality, capable of replacing, due to its exceptional convenience and helpfulness, reality, reality objective.

Now we are moving to the most important in the Durovy brothers project: Ton is not served as a technological revolution, not as the long -awaited symbiosis of progressive crypto algorithms and broad masses, namely Libertarian utopia. As an instrument of genuine personality exemption from totalitarian pressure and control by corporations and state structures.

The pathos of these ambitions is even spelled out in the Ton advertising avenue: “The famous Libertarian ( Pavel Durov. - S. G. ), who published a free market manifest, urged the Russian government to resolve and decentralize the economy of the state. However, Pavel was forced to sell VKontakte and leave Russia in 2014 after a conflict with the government due to encroachments on the privacy of social network users and freedom of statements. ”

Such a grandiose revolution was prepared by the Durov brothers. How can you relate to Ton? Of course, with admiration - at least a commercial genius of developers: Ton financing is planned to be carried out using ICO (Initial Coin Offering, the primary placement of coins) - a collective financing procedure, an alternative to traditional IPO, a public offer of shares - for a record amount of $ 200 million.

It is characteristic that at the initial stage the subscription will be closed and half the money will be provided by large investors from the list of the world financial elite. They say that a long queue has already been lined up.

As for the technical aspects of the project, there is no doubt that contrary to loud statements that sound at professional forums (they write that the “third -generation blockchain” as they plan to implement Ton is impossible while maintaining decentralized architecture), sooner or later the contradictions will be removed from the messenger from the messenger.

It is the Libertarian pathos of the project that causes much more skepticism.

The problem is not in utopia itself, but in Ton relations with reality.

I will not spend the time of readers on a detailed analysis of Ton aspects, taking away the leverage of control over citizens and corporations. I will limit myself to a rhetorical question: did the FBI really have so much effort to eliminate the Silk Road underground store, to now allow the two Russians to expand the independent monetary system and the trading platform among white days in sight?

Those who, by naivety believes in the possibility of the independent existence of crypto -ups in the subwine world, refer to a fresh example - riots in Iran, which so clearly and cynically disavowed the mythology of a crypto -volume.

On December 30, 2017, at the request of the Iranian authorities, the Telegram administration personally blocked the channel of the opposition journalist Rukholla Zam. The next day, the government asked to turn off another channel - Sadaie MarDom, but this time Telegram refused, and then the authorities simply took and closed access to the messenger throughout the country (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus in Iran are blocked by 2013)

Morality: the new project of the Durov brothers is a wonderful example of the arrangement of our virtual-civilian future. However, he will not be able to resist reality.