The weird thing about Telegram is that for all of Pavel's talk of privacy, it's not end-to-end encrypted like WhatsApp and Signal. 

If The Blob is giving him grief for not going along with warrants, he could just encrypt, only offer traffic data like FB/Apple, and that's that.

Also, one of the great ironies of 'crypto' is that it settled on the least cryptographically secure and least decentralized messaging app as its main social/messaging platform.nnAnd XMTP and Signal are just sitting right there.