Telegram Offers $200k in Bitcoin for Cracking its Encrypted Messages
If you are not an early adopter but you are still hoping to cash in on bitcoin, there is a way to win $200,000 worth of the currency. However, you will need to be the 21st century equivalent of Alan Turing to pull it off. Telegram, a super secure messaging service developed by two Russian entrepreneurs, is offering a $200,000 prize in bitcoin to anyone who manages to beat its encryption protocol. This is basically their way of saying that it is practically impossible to crack. To prove their point, Telegram developers Pavel and Nikolai Durov have started sending private messages containing....
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