Recently Durov mentioned how his TON shitcoin slave chain was doing better than other chains including Bitcoin without mentioning lightning. Thank you for mentioning this and it's nice that Telegram has bots and that a bot can do this.

Telegram is a very good tool and network if enough Bitcoin things are successful maybe this could be another avenue for business in places that need stable markets.

Here is the Telegram blog post on TON (of poop) https://blog.ton.org/100000-transactions-per-second-ton-sets-the-world-record-on-its-first-performance-test