Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions
As an outsider--who doesn't use Telegram--it looks like they want to become like WeChat outside of China:  Where you shop and do basically <i>everything</i> from within a single application (Telegram).<p>They claim this is improved privacy but it doesn't look like that to me.  Instead of my transaction being between myself and a merchant it's me, the merchant, <i>and Telegram</i>.  Furthermore, Telegram can now aggregate all my purchases and info across multiple merchants (and whatever else I do).<p>They say they store, "no payment information" but that's really only a small part of any given transaction.  They may still record what you bought and how much it cost along with when it was purchased.  All the, "no payment information" claim means is that they're not storing your credit card/account numbers.