Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Let Telegram Try to Build a Digital Nation

This upcoming ICO aims to bring cryptocurrencies to the masses.

January 30, 2018 at 7:00 AM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Pavel Durov has a vision.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

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