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BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by wyldfire »

(IMO) TRON fails to distinguish itself from other decentralized storage blockchain tokens/coins.

This move is a clever circular reasoning where taking their hype-driven valuation and using it to invest in a company that will give TRON more credibility.

Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)?

EDIT: corrected 'syllogism'

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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wyldfire wrote: post #3

(IMO) TRON fails to distinguish itself from other decentralized storage blockchain tokens/coins. This move is a clever circular reasoning where taking their hype-driven valuation and using it to invest in a company that will give TRON more credibility. Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)? EDIT: corrected 'syllogism'

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Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by koolba »

What product or service does (did?) BitTorrent offer?

Is there revenue stream purely from licensing the name?

And does Bram Cohen have any actual involvement in this crypto nonsense or is this him cashing out and walking away from it all?

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by jlborxes »

koolba wrote: post #5

What product or service does (did?) BitTorrent offer? Is there revenue stream purely from licensing the name? And does Bram Cohen have any actual involvement in this crypto nonsense or is this him cashing out and walking away from it all?

Bram Cohen has his own crypto company called the Chia Network.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by [deleted] »

[deleted] wrote: post #4
wyldfire wrote: post #3

(IMO) TRON fails to distinguish itself from other decentralized storage blockchain tokens/coins. This move is a clever circular reasoning where taking their hype-driven valuation and using it to invest in a company that will give TRON more credibility. Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)? EDIT: corrected 'syllogism'

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Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by lawn »

wyldfire wrote: post #3

(IMO) TRON fails to distinguish itself from other decentralized storage blockchain tokens/coins. This move is a clever circular reasoning where taking their hype-driven valuation and using it to invest in a company that will give TRON more credibility. Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)? EDIT: corrected 'syllogism'

> Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition

It's not. It's just a pump and dump scheme with no solid tech at all. 60% of all tokens were given privately for example.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by jameskegel »

lawn wrote: post #9
wyldfire wrote: post #3

(IMO) TRON fails to distinguish itself from other decentralized storage blockchain tokens/coins. This move is a clever circular reasoning where taking their hype-driven valuation and using it to invest in a company that will give TRON more credibility. Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)? EDIT: corrected 'syllogism'

> Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition It's not. It's just a pump and dump scheme with no solid tech at all. 60% of all tokens were given privately for example.

There have also been allegations of plagiarism [1]

1 - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-researchers-allege-...

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