{"id":71104,"date":"2022-12-07T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71104"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:20:50","slug":"telegram-launches-sale-of-anonymous-numbers-on-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-launches-sale-of-anonymous-numbers-on-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram launches sale of anonymous numbers on Fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest update, Telegram <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/blog\/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0\/ru\\\">\u0434\u043e\u0431\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b<\/a> the ability to register an account without a SIM card, using anonymous numbers based on blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>They can be purchased with the cryptocurrency Toncoin (TON) on the Fragment platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/telegram-team-launches-fragment-platform-to-sell-usernames\">launched<\/a> on October 27. Prices range from 11 TON ($20) to 31,500 TON ($57,330).<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The Telegram team described the solution as \u201ca new era of privacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cWhen using Telegram, your phone number has never been visible to strangers: our users themselves decide whom to show it to, and can forbid others from being found by their phone number,\u201d the update text says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>For privacy, Telegram also added a universal timer for automatically deleting messages in all new private chats, even if the other party sends the first message.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain auction Fragment was originally created to sell account identifiers. In early November, the first Telegram username was bought on the platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fragment-sells-telegrams-first-username-for-900000-ton\">@auto<\/a> \u2014 @auto. Its price amounted to 900,000 TON (about $1.4m).<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, Telegram founder Pavel Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-unveils-non-custodial-wallet-and-dex-from-telegram-team\">announced<\/a> a non-custodial wallet and decentralized applications, including DEX, from the Telegram team.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> channel \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Telegram update, the messenger added the ability to register an account without a SIM card, using anonymous numbers based on blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1256,465,723],"class_list":["post-71104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-social-media","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"231","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71106,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104\/revisions\/71106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}