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(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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(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'
Beyond that it really looks like a rather simple pump and dump. If you click the "technical docs" on the front page you end up here: https://tron.network/resources?name=1&lng=en
There are 3 PDFs here. "What is TRON" is a 7 page marketing brochure that's about as technical as the MacDonald's menu. The "Design Book of TRON architecture" sounds a lot more promising until you see that it's 12 pages long. It's extremely high level and doesn't tell you anything of value. Finally you have the "TRON Protobuf protocol" which is 10 pages long and exactly what it sounds like.
In other words, business as usual in the cryptocurrency world.
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…
So BitTorrent Sync is now Resilio Sync, and word has it most of the smart engineers jumped to that ship when it spun out.
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)
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/
I mean, the homepage ( http://tron.network ) has a giant face of the "Founder" / "CEO" of the company... Glorious.
I am dropping my 50 cents here: I would not look at it as if Tron bought BitTorrent... I think it was the other way around: BitTorrent was financially known to not be very "healthy". I bet it was more BitTorrent looking for mo-mo-mo-money as a valid exit!
(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.
TRON is just garbage though.
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/