BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON • Hacker News Board

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by bearcobra » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

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?

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/the-inside-story-of-bittorrent... has a pretty good summary of the corporate history of BitTorrent Inc. They had a number of ideas beyond just licensing their tech to other businesses, most of them focused on being some kind of media company.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by bloopernova » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

What is TRON? I've tried reading official materials but there seems to be a lot of contention and misinformation swirling around this company/product.

Does this mean any kind of change in downloading an ISO of fedora or whatever? (Yes, I'm that boring and don't download movies or games via torrents, mostly I just watch stuff on Netflix or similar)

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by nasredin » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 7:59 PM UTC

If both of these firms (I have no idea what TRON does) disappear tommorrow, would anyone notice?

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by piggybank » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:04 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #12

What is TRON? I've tried reading official materials but there seems to be a lot of contention and misinformation swirling around this company/product. Does this mean any kind of change in downloading an ISO of fedora or whatever? (Yes, I'm that boring and don't download movies or games via torrents, mostly I just watch stuff on Netflix or similar)

Founded by a chinese guy who plagiarized ethereum whitepaper, that's all you need to know about it.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by moomin » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:10 PM UTC

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.

TRON: for investors that don’t have a CLU.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by agorabinary » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

In case anyone is still using the ad-plagued bitorrent.com client:

https://transmissionbt.com

Lots of features, easy to use.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by chungy » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:22 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #12

What is TRON? I've tried reading official materials but there seems to be a lot of contention and misinformation swirling around this company/product. Does this mean any kind of change in downloading an ISO of fedora or whatever? (Yes, I'm that boring and don't download movies or games via torrents, mostly I just watch stuff on Netflix or similar)

BitTorrent the company has been fairly far detached from the protocol and software introduced in 2001. The original client discontinued, µTorrent is proprietary, and launching various services like BitTorrent Sync and Play that really don't have anything to do with the protocol at all... I'm honestly surprised that the company still survives (though this may be why it's being acquired).

Long story short, no, it won't affect you using the protocol and Transmission or what-have-you to download Fedora ISOs.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by HashBasher » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:22 PM UTC

nasredin wrote: post #13

If both of these firms (I have no idea what TRON does) disappear tommorrow, would anyone notice?

It's called an exit scam. Many have done it, few notice and even fewer care.

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by sandov » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

agorabinary wrote: post #16

In case anyone is still using the ad-plagued bitorrent.com client: https://transmissionbt.com Lots of features, easy to use.

For Windows users I'd recommend Deluge, because its interface is more like uTorrent but without all the adware and plus it's open source.

https://www.deluge-torrent.org/

Re: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

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Post by jerguismi » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

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 (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)?

I have been following all those and based on the numerous articles I have read they are pretty much all failed. Blockchain just doesn't make sense for that application.