Justin Sun rejected claims by a former BitTorrent manager who said that tokenizing the BitTorrent economy on Tron would “literally destroy it”.
Speaking to Breaker Magazine, former BitTorrent Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Simon Morris asked a series of questions about Tron and CEO Justin Sun’s technological prowess on Friday, claiming the blockchain would be under the strain of the proposed tokenized BitTorrent Network “melt”. Additionally, he claimed the team was deceptively using a centralized architecture to increase transaction throughput.
Morris, who, according to Breaker, originally conceived the recently revealed BitTorrent token, had the following criticism:
“We have the transaction capacity [were] Watching it took hundreds of transactions per second to get started. It’s just not there. You hear all the crap out there, oh, that’s 10,000 transactions per second. It’s all crap. We wanted to melt Tron. Literally destroy it. “
A “hybrid approach”
On Monday, Sun wrote a Reddit post titled “Answering Recent Questions About the Impending BitTorrent Token Rollout,” likely with the intention of taking some of the heat off Tron.
Though Morris was officially beaten up as a “disgruntled employee” with “little insight into Tron’s operational plans,” Sun acknowledged that the former BitTorrent manager had been telling a truth in his interview:
“The former employee, Simon Morris, got one thing right in his testimony to an online cryptocurrency outlet: Based on confidential research he carried out during his time at BitTorrent, he describes the enormous potential of the project: ‘Automated auctions for Prioritizing download queues, says Morris could speed up the entire BitTorrent network by up to 40 percent. ‘”
The Tron CEO did not address a number of Morris’ arguably worse concerns, including statements such as Sun that attack lies “Trumpian” and “have no technical bone in his body.” Morris went so far as to suggest that by marketing Tron’s team, they might even misrepresent Tron’s architecture:
“I suspect they’ll really be doing it on a central server, waving their hands and saying, ‘Oh, it’s a lightning network for Tron,’ or something, and pretending it’s Tron-based, but not really Tron -based. “
According to Sun, the project’s whitepaper, published a week before the Breaker interview, describes a “hybrid approach” that sheds light on how Tron scales to meet the transaction requirements stated by BitTorrent. Sun stated:
“Our project whitepaper was published on January 3rd, a full week before the online article, and it answers some of the questions the former employee asked. In the whitepaper we write: ‘BitTorrent Inc. will provide an’ on-chain / off-chain exchange ‘that will facilitate the transfer of tokens between a powerful private ledger and the public TRON blockchain.’ ‘
For Sun’s assurances, however, the concise description of a “high-performance private book” in the newspaper can be read as deliberately opaque and could justify Morris’ suspicion of a covertly centralized and decidedly troneless BitTorrent token. Or maybe Tron really has a unique, innovative solution for better scaling BitTorrent.
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