In a matter of days, Tron will be exactly one year old. What started out as an Ethereum based decentralized application has now developed into a fully fledged proprietary Blockchain worth close to $3 billion. Since the beginning, Tron was poised to ‘decentralize the internet’ even though Justin Sun (CEO of Tron) and his team are yet to broadly define what that really means.
Perhaps when Tron has finally completed its ongoing token swap, with all the funds from TRX holders migrated to the new Tron Blockchain, the statement together with Tron’s vision will be made clear. For now, however, anyone with a considerable amount of funds invested in TRX, the token swap event that started last week is nothing short of a make or break moment.
On Justin Sun’s purchasing of BitTorrent
As most Tron followers already know, Justin Sun is by far the most outspoken member of the Tron team. The former Ripple representative last week was the talk of the town after he moved to purchase BitTorrent in a move that was criticized as a legitimacy seeking mission for Tron by the young founder.
Having emerged from the crypto boom of 2017, Tron has not been a favorite for inured crypto enthusiasts. In fact, apart from being regarded to lack legitimacy in the crypto community, Tron has also previously been called out for plagiarism to which Justin Sun promptly responded by saying that,
We do apologize for the quality of different versions of the whitepapers. Also, our current code development is not as same as we planned in the whitepaper so please check our @github and feedback is welcome!
Likewise, onlookers have also accused Tron of not providing attribution to Ethereum’s protocol even after using its code to build the newly launched mainnet.
Comparing Tron to Ethereum
While speaking to CoinDesk, Sun not only remained confident about Tron overcoming past allegations but he also pointed out that the choices and decisions made with the project were in line with his vision. He further mentioned that Tron, unlike the likes of Ethereum, is focused on developing “consumer-facing products.”
According to him,
Ethereum is like IBM back in the day, making those big supercomputers…They only focus on tech, they don’t focus on user experience.
Sun believes that Tron is building on top of Ethereum’s inefficiencies to become the “Microsoft of Blockchain”
His response to allegations
While being interviewed by CoinDesk, Sun responded to the allegations about plagiarism by saying that Tron takes “Security issues very seriously” and that the company spends millions in bug bounties to prove the fact.
Although he acknowledged the allegations about plagiarism, indicating that it had stemmed from a minor error made by a programmer earlier in the project, he brushed off the issue about Tron’s use of Ethereum J by saying that Tron only used “a small portion of Ethereum J”.
As it seems, even with the new mainnet, CoinDesk’s interview reveals that Tron is still using the EthereumJ protocol on its mainnet. When asked whether the new Tron Blockchain was still using EthereumJ, however, both Mr.Sun and the Tron team were unable to give a concise answer.
Conclusion
Although a number of software experts have shown concerns over the preparedness of Tron’s mainnet, super representative candidates on Tron’s network, as well as some entities, are still optimistic about the successful operation of the Tron mainnet launched last month. At the moment, whether the Tron mainnet fails or succeeds is to be determined in a matter of time.
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