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In telegram instead of using real mobile phone number you can buy pseudo-number on blockchain https://fragment.com/numbers. If you use tor and ton-wallet, that's not linked to your identity, this number will be fully anonymous

I guess they are not letting to use email because they will instantly be overrun by bots

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What's the point of buying it from fragment (which is basically Telegram's way of using their scam currency) and spend at least €50 when you can just buy one for a few cents on websites such as smspva?

If only there was a way to use user identifiers other than phone numbers, and to accept payment for account creation without using the blockchain.

I thought that decentralized identity is one of the legit uses of blockchain. Why not? With that, you can potentially use same identity on different platform and don't worry about your identity being banned by your provider or just closing the whole platform (looking at you, google)

One of the purported use cases. I’m not aware of any successful implementation.

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