The real failure though was that though my transaction got confirmed on-chain, it was still listed as "pending" in Telegram. I left it for 12 hours+ and it still had not been added to my balance. I contacted the support bot and this is what they had to say:
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1100 sats is high risk? According to who? This is about as loose as it gets. If I cannot deposit Bitcoin to my wallet then how can anyone? There was no ticket number, no support link, just a quick "give us your refund address." Who else has access to my funds?
There is still a way out of this for Telegram though. I see a clear opportunity to build out Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure and be a first mover here in messaging + payments. Cut TON out and build some real systems.
As it stands, I see a lot more promise from the likes of wallet of satoshi / getalby / breez integrating Nostr private messaging etc than I do from a half-baked Telegram "crypto" wallet that I cannot trust at all and that doesn't even work.