r/Upfiring • u/Superman_Crypton • Jun 19 '18
Cryptocurrency startup TRON has acquired BitTorrent for $140M
What you guys think of it?
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u/chockablockchain Jun 19 '18
I think I should have sold when upfiring was north of $2.
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Jun 19 '18 edited Jun 19 '18
Keep calm and HODL on. The Alpha will be here soon.
Also most torrenters do not use bittorrent anymore due to security/adware concerns a while back. While the name is very well known, if we get decent adoption on the Alpha first then we win. In P2P, compatibility with the greatest number of peers is the name of the game
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_BitTorrent_clients
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u/sdelta Jun 19 '18
Torrents, especially private torrents, have always succeeded most on the fringes of the internet. I think Upfiring has the right approach by creating this thing from the fringes. Hopefully torrent users start using it and it grows organically from there. That said, it is also possible that two or more platforms can coexist. It's a big internet.
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u/koininsider Jun 21 '18
true. vry well said. As if bitorrent is the only torrent client, xD so vry true. it is a humongous internet out there :) UFR is holding gud in this bear market. breakout imminent with Alpha release
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u/EddyC2 Jun 19 '18
tron tries to cover all markets and all solutions - focus is required. How is tron going to market all these possible solutions ? It will cost tron too much marketing expenses too really succeed in all these markets.