You can allow receiving messages only from your contacts and Premium users
The next update of the Telegram messenger has been released. Telegram version 10.6.1 is already available for Android and iOS operating systems, other clients will be updated soon. The new version of the application has the ability to limit the receipt of personal messages: now owners of a paid Telegram Premium subscription can choose who will start new conversations with them: all users or only those from the contact list and Premium users. This setting can be managed in the «Privacy» section.
In addition, messenger users can see exactly when the interlocutor read their messages in the chat. In turn, Premium subscribers now have the opportunity to hide their reading time from those interlocutors who do not see the time of their last activity. Also, Telegram Premium subscribers who have hidden their last activity time will still be able to see the last visit time of those users who have not hidden it in their privacy settings.