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Justin Sun’s Rebuttal to Criticisms About TRON’s Integration with BitTorrent
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Updated: Feb. 2, 2020 at 10:18 pm UTC
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Justin Sun rebutted claims by a former BitTorrent executive who said that tokenizing BitTorrent’s economy on Tron would “literally destroy it.”
Speaking to Breaker Magazine, BitTorrentโs ex-Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Simon Morris on Friday raised a host of questions about the technological capabilities of Tron and CEO Justin Sun, asserting the blockchain would โmeltโ under the strain of the envisaged tokenized BitTorrent network. Furthermore, he claimed that the team would deceptively use centralized architecture to boost transactional throughput.
Morris, who according to Breaker, originally conceived of the recently unveiled BitTorrent Token, had the following criticism:
โThe transactional capacity we [were] looking at was needing hundreds of transactions a second just to get started. Itโs simply not there. You hear all the bullshit out there, oh, this does 10,000 transactions a second. Itโs all crap. We were going to melt Tron. Literally destroy it.โ
Taking a โHybrid Approachโ
On Monday, Sun wrote a Reddit post titled โAddressing the Recent Questions Around BitTorrent Token’s Upcoming Rolloutโ likely with the intention of taking some of the heat off of Tron.
Despite officially blasting Morris as a โdisgruntled employeeโ with โlittle insight into Tron operational plans,โ as Breaker reported, Sun did concede that the former BitTorrent executive had spoken one truth in his interview:
โThe former employee, Simon Morris, got one thing right in his statement to an online cryptocurrency outlet: based on confidential research done while he was at BitTorrent, he describes the projectโs tremendous potential: โAutomated auctions to prioritize download queues, Morris says, could make the entire BitTorrent network as much as 40 percent faster.โโ
The Tron CEO did not offer comment on a number of Morrisโs arguably more damning concerns, including statements such as Sun takes a โTrumpian approachโ to lies and โdoesnโt have a technical bone in his body.โ Morris went as far as to suggest that Tronโs team might even misrepresent, through its marketing, the architecture of Tron:
โI suspect that what theyโre really going to do is theyโll do it on some central server, theyโll wave their hands and say, โOh, itโs a Lightning Network for Tron,โ or something, and pretend itโs Tron-based, but itโs not really Tron-based.โ
But according to Sun, the projectโs white paper, released a week prior to the Breaker interview, describes a โhybrid approachโ that sheds light on how Tron will scale to reach BitTorrentโs noted transactional requirements. Sun stated:
โOur project whitepaper was published on Jan. 3rd, a full week before the online article, and answers some of the very questions posed by the former employee. In the whitepaper, we write: โBitTorrent Inc. will deploy an โon-chain/off-chain exchange,โ which exists to facilitate the transfer of tokens between a high-performance private ledger and the public TRON blockchain.โโ
For Sunโs assurances, however, the paperโs concise description of a โhigh-performance private ledgerโ may read as one that is deliberately opaque, and could vindicate Morris in his suspicions of a covertly centralized, and decidedly Tron-less, BitTorrent Token. Or, maybe Tron really does have a unique, innovative solution for better scaling BitTorrent.
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