Tonight it was the ICO of oCoin to, that is correletad to Tron.
Exactly. Moreover the TRON website (which is actually available in English, even though people here claim it is Chinese only) provides a link to the github repository. There both the source code and a tutorial how to install it can be found. I absolutely cannot understand how persistent these FUD claims like "TRON has no product !" circulate on the web for weeks even though with just a few minutes of research it is so easy to see that
1. There is source code available for everyone to see
2. There are constant enhancements to the code for everyone on github to see
3. First products like oCoin and TRON puppies are going live
I have a masters degree in computer science with specialization in networking and I am convinced that the idea of TRON definitely has the potential to change the internet. P2P overlay networks have been a field of studies already in the 90s because it is a fact that they have quite some advantages over the client-server model which suffers from scalability issues more and more these days. TRON uses these in combination with the blockchain to empower a whole new way content distribution and hence could be a big competition for all great content players like YouTube, Netflix, iTunes and so on.
Of course it cannot be guaranteed that the project will achieve this, nobody can effectively predict the future. However, what I am really missing in this crypto currency world (and especially in terms of TRX) is construct criticism. There are very few arguments against TRON that really have a rational background. Most of the people are just like:
- "TRX is a scam because the price fell from 0.26$ to 0.08$ !"
So what? Bitcoin fell from 20.000$ to about 9.000$ and Bitcoin is definitely not a scam. Learn to differentiate between the price and the value of coin.
- "TRX has no working product!"
It has, as mentioned above have a look at oCoin, TRX Puppies or the github repository.
- "Justin Sun is just a fraudster!"
Yeah sure, just throw stuff like that into the room without knowing him nor having any real arguments to prove this.
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While there are some valid arguments like the copied whitepaper and the hype Justin is trying to produce, I personally don't think that these are really things that matter. Yes, it is absolutely bad mannered not to cite papers from which you take over ideas or sentences, but this is nothing that could bring TRON to court and destroy their business in real life, because no patent or something like this exists for whitepapers. Probably everyone involved in IT knows the stories that Steve Jobs actually "stole" the ideas of iPhone and iPad and these devices have not been the first ones of their kind. But he was the first one who was good enough at marketing to create them in a user-friendly way and sell them to the masses. Similarly rumors exist that Bill Gates took lots of code for his famous MS-DOS from competitors. I could go on with other stories like the guy who bought the rights to open McDonalds shops from the brothers McDonald. In the end he as well just stole a good idea from them and was the one making profit. But does that really matter today? McDonalds, Apple, Microsoft are all huge companies making billions of dollars every year. If Justin Sun copy and pastes good ideas from other crypto currencies and blockchains and he can form them into a user-friendly, working product because he has a passionate team, he could do a similar thing. If the TRON network is up and running in 5-8 years with millions of active users, nobody will care about a copied whitepaper and nobody will be able to sue them.
In that sense: Like TRON or hate TRON, but please do proper research and use valid arguments instead of just propagating false information or claims!
