<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>transcriptase</author><text>Honestly. Telegram is a superb chat client, but there’s no reason for this blockchain nonsense. Let users choose a username and password like services have been doing for decades.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Anunayj</author><text>I am a little confused as to why a blockchain was necessary here? Since Telegram is a centralized platform, couldn&amp;#x27;t they just roll their own &amp;quot;usernames&amp;quot; which they already do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0/fr?setln=en</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frollo</author><text>Durov has been pushing a lot of blockchain nonsense over his app. I really like Telegram as a chat app, but his stunts are making me wonder whether it&amp;#x27;s still a good idea to depend so much on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Anunayj</author><text>I am a little confused as to why a blockchain was necessary here? Since Telegram is a centralized platform, couldn&amp;#x27;t they just roll their own &amp;quot;usernames&amp;quot; which they already do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0/fr?setln=en</url></story>