So, how do I download this? – was the question. What do you mean? –  was the reply. How do… where’s the node software? With silence  following, does this really not even have a blockchain or any product at  all, we wondered. Their Github page does suggest so. We thus asked  coders to confirm. “What do you mean with “launched”, as in being used? or the code  released? As far as I know, the main net hasn’t been launched yet,” Roy  van Kaathoven, a coder simply interested in the project and not from  Tron, tells us. But how do, how are all these TRXs moving? Oh, it’s just an ETH token, we are told. An eth token with just a whitepaper worth $14 billion? Welcome to crypto 2018. To put that in context, Twitter, with millions of users and quite  some remarkable influence in the world stage, is kind of worth as much.  So we went back to this golden whitepaper which by words alone has such  mesmerizing power. “We believe users should have ownership of and control over the data  they create, rather than have to cede that ownership and control to the  platform; users must freely own all digital information,” the project  says. It is a statement we have heard many times before. Facebook, Google,  Apple, Amazon, Alibaba and others are accused of creating walls, and  perhaps more importantly, controlling our data, manipulating them too,  through secret algorithms which grants them unimaginable power, and as  we all know, power corrupts. 

The proposed solution by a number of projects, and Tron appears to be  no different, is the employment of various decentralized technologies,  such as IPFS and blockchain tech, to create distributed data storage. The way this usually works, and Tron seemingly aims to eventually  implement, is by linking distributed bittorrent like data storage  through IPFS to blockchain hashes, so that a movie stored on IPFS is  recorded as only a piece of string on the blockchain. The concept has already been implemented by LBRY, with their developers telling trusnodes back in May of last year: “The blockchain is the database for all the content on the network.  The URI + the associated metadata is stored on it. So when you want to  find some or stream something, you find it on the blockchain and extract  the relevant information, which in turns allows you to (1) pay the  publisher – or not if it’s free, like a lot of things – (2) thereby  initiating the stream in an otherwise YouTube-like experience. What is not on the blockchain is the data itself, which is sharded  and distributed in a bittorrent-like fashion across all the host nodes  which you can think of as the LBRY equivalent of a “full node” from  bitcoin: a node which has content shards it is uploading to other  viewers.” It is unclear whether Tron follows the exact same approach, but the  whitepaper does seem to suggest so, mentioning hash tags and stating  their first phase is the implementation of IPFS to be followed by a  blockchain: “In the Exodus phase, on the basis of the distributed storage  technology represented by IPFS, TRON will provide users with a  completely free and reliable platform for data publication, storage and  dissemination… 

 In the TRON system, content producers can have direct access to TRX,  the TRON coin paid by fan users for premium content. They can also  obtain influence and power by creating high-quality contents, thus  directly gaining TRX rewards given by the system.” It is a nice idea, but its implementation in a truly decentralized  manner while having the speed and convenience of centralized services is  very difficult, if at all possible, to achieve at this stage. Which might perhaps be why Tron doesn’t even offer an alpha, as far  as we are aware, let alone a full on product, for us to see just how it  all works. We are told main-net might launch in March, without elaboration on  how realistic that is. “Justin is working on promoting Tron first, and  working on the product later,” we are told. How much more than $14 billion he wants a big fonts whitepaper with  no product to be worth, who is to know. 

Nor is anyone to know how much  further the marketing hype is to go. Not least because Justin Sun might be the master of it. He brags of all sorts, yet can he name one actual achievement? “He was one of the 2015 Forbes “30 under 30” in China and one of the  2017 Forbes “30 under 30” in Asia. He also won the title of Global  Shaper at the 2014 Davos Forum (World Economic Forum). He was the only  post-90 student of first period of Hupan University founded by Jack Ma.” With those “credentials” you’d expect a lot, but the only mentioned  achievement is an app that has one million active users. If that’s what  gets you the title of shaping the globe, then this is truly 1994. Yet, it would perhaps be unfair if we did not mention his real  achievement. A search for Tron shows CNBC, Business Today, and The Sun,  Britain’s most read newspaper. The last one is most surprising because they barely ever mention even  bitcoin, so what took their fancy to inform their readers about a  whitepaper with no product remains unclear. Except perhaps Sun’s marketing wiz, yet little lives on promises alone. Eventually, reality might have to catch up.

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[1] http://www.trustnodes.com

BTW this is one month price chart. It does not make any sense since there was no any product/code related change for this coin.