It seems this won't remove the requirement for a phone number, rather it will serve as an alternative ID of sorts, same way Telegram does it now, they no longer allow signing up without a number.
It seems this won't remove the requirement for a phone number, rather it will serve as an alternative ID of sorts, same way Telegram does it now, they no longer allow signing up without a number.
For Telegram I think they try to make a case for TON. In TON you can buy a special phone number that can be used for Telegram, and therefore (pseudo)anonymous.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Telegram never allowed sign up without username? I've had it for a long long time and it was always centred around phone numbers. I could be wrong.
I think for a brief period it was allowed but as an alternative option, then they removed it.