@andrewmccalip @TobiasVinc57321 just accept crypto payments via stripe, also allow usdc withdrawl in those countries
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Kartik
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@TobiasVinc57321 It's only Stripe Connect compatible countries for the next few months, I can only do so much, I can't take on the accounting burden of 10,000 manual tax filings, this is my hobby, sorry 🥴
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Oh hello, @durov
Nobody is using Telegram in India for messaging. Telegram is mostly used by scammers in India. Most financial fraud (Billions of dollars) in India happens through Telegram
The Indian government should have banned Telegram years ago. It is long overdue.
I’ve been noticing the same pattern for years. Almost every fraudster immediately moves to Telegram. it’s harder to trace, easier to operate.
Calling this an internet freedom issue misses the point completely.
Telegram became one of the preferred platforms for financial fraud, scam networks, betting groups, piracy, and other illegal activities in India.
Pavel Durov@durov
India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.
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@Kartikio @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX Yes agreed , what I feel people in India should move on to self hosting stuff , I know it's not easy to learn but we r in great era of information n access to how to create n make things, it can be done from ua phone old pc n can be used for entire family n friends at scale
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Imagine explaining to international investors and protocol engineers that your startup progress is stalled because your government decided restricting Telegram groups was the answer to exam leaks.
My startup @GammaHedgeX being incubated by a Vietnam-based VC and was in active integration talks with protocol teams. Now critical discussions are frozen overnight.
Overnight, critical communication channels are disrupted. 📵
The people leaking papers will find another platform by tomorrow.
Founders, builders, and legitimate communities are the ones paying the price. 💸
Peak incompetence. 👏🤦♂️
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@Techie_me_ @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX yea i know what good and bad happens on telegram, moderation is a problem still I don't really have any problem with tg, we have different views due to different experiences and that's understandable.
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@Kartikio @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX Let me blunt in India u know I know what people use telegram for , and not saying there no people in India who don't use telegram with good intent . But problem is when people use at very huge scale for bad with out moderation become head ache for any govt .
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@Techie_me_ @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX fair, still startups use telegram to communicate with international clients for potential collabs, also acts as best harness to access your AI agents, web3 & tech communities from, its used for much good as well along with the bad
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@Kartikio @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX That's the whole point don't depend on one thing too much . I used to rely on telegram way to much few yers back then moved to self hosting instead . Mentioned few times n conversation was never Abt is it stupid , right or wrong or its Abt govt ,it was Abt start up
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@Techie_me_ @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX Telegram can just be stricter with policies, but govt can't just ban it, not denying that it doesn't have any bad stuff, it does, it got its own cons and pros, but banning telegram for a week is a stupid move, I use telegram more than any other messaging app
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@Kartikio @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX I tested a device for brand not once they asked me to go telegram , I m not saying there r not good things happen on telegram but my point is it's mess n lack credibility. N i work in industry where I see people coming to me losing there money on telegram at scale
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This ban is such a stupid decision. A paper leak is literally a PDF document that can be shared via infinite ways. There’s nothing inherently that telegram enables or can even contribute to making the leak easy or anonymous.
just a solution to a problem that does not exist.
Pavel Durov@durov
India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.
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@Techie_me_ @Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX Lol, a lot of deals and collabs between brands happen on telegram only especially international ones, your point doesn't make sense
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@Rudra9439 @GammaHedgeX Start up and using telegram to communicate your business deals which doesn't hold any accountability over crimes or fraud tells the story
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@jasveer10 @durov There are dating app scams too, I guess should ban them too?
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Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.
The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.
This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.
Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.
Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.
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SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
SpaceX@SpaceX
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.
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@TechCrunch Now, Indian government must mandate that any AI usage in India has to be sovereign and while we are building it everything else is temporary. In fact, pass a law in the parliament.
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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/sar…
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@kingofknowwhere Bhavish is actual genius who should be backed, but the leftist lobby destroyed his reputation.
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Unironically Bhavish's Krutrim was better than Sarvam at its best. If only it stuck to serving deepseek or kimi invoiced in rupees and re selling coding plans in rupees. The problem is that no one is doing this and unfortunately this is exactly what we need.
kuldeep@ku1deep
you guys should never have made fun of Krutrim, you guys upset the poor fellow and now we don't have sovereign AI? Serves us right.
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@0xMaheshK @kingofknowwhere Yup, that would be good. Yeah, there's always a cap, there is nothing unlimited in inference space.
I already get $3k inference credit for a month for a $20 sub via a provider. I use it towards Claude, GPT, or any Frontier models.
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@kingofknowwhere Not sure about unlimited part on inference market but Kimi and minimax at that price per month is a steal.
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@andrewmccalip @stripe maybe integrate USDT, USDC as payment options and users being able to withdraw in their crypto wallets too
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36 hours later, we're sending the first payouts!
Thanks to @stripe for making this all possible!
Andrew McCalip@andrewmccalip
Get paid to wait The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth. So I turned it into an ad marketplace. Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money. Install the extension → get cash from ads. Introducing Kickbacks
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@leandrocfe @orca_build love using it, i have tried so many IDE's, this is the best, was using cmux, warp before, dumped them, this just has everything you need
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Meet @orca_build ✨
Multi-agent support
Worktrees per task
GitHub integration
Mobile app to sync and continue anywhere 🔥
Just an open source tool built around the agentic workflow.
Try it 🚀 (link in first reply)
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Anthropic's CTO is Indian. 🇮🇳
(Rahul Patil)
Anthropic's CFO is Indian. 🇮🇳
(Krishna Rao)
India doesn't have OpenAI.
India doesn't have Anthropic.
India doesn't have DeepMind.
Anthropic restricted access to Fable 5 and Mythos. It's the US which now has the power and intelligence both along with Indians working for them.
Wars aren't just fought with nuclear weapons. It's high time India starts thinking about this and invest heavily on building it's own frontier AI labs !
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