Things to consider before investing in TRON

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago (edited)

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The TRON whitepaper is way too long. It lists all sorts of things that I personally, as a potential investor wouldn't want. What exactly was the need to make it so long and yet, miss out on some of the really important points. Even after traversing the paper quite a number of times, I couldn't get answers to some of the really important questions, although, I'm not sure if it's because it's way too diluted and surrounded with unnecessary information or that they actually missed it. Here are a few questions that I would consider before investing in it.

  1. The first and the foremost, it's advertising a MerkleDAG to be it's underlying structure, but didn't mention much about it. Take for example, how a node is represented.
    Type Node struct {
         NodeId NodeID
         PubKey PublicKey
         PriKey PrivateKey
    }

    So how are the nodes indexed? How are they linked to each other? I don't get a notion of a network, unless there's some way to connect them. I see that you have mentioned about a hash digest, which is actually the type of NodeID. So how to access the table of Node IDs from each node? And then, somewhere, you've mentioned that the transactions will take place on a blockchain! So is that MerkleDAG thing only for transferring files?
    Contrast this with a node in IOTA.

    public class Node {
         private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Node.class);
         public static final int TRANSACTION_PACKET_SIZE = 1650;
         private int BROADCAST_QUEUE_SIZE;
         private int RECV_QUEUE_SIZE;
         private int REPLY_QUEUE_SIZE;
         private static final int PAUSE_BETWEEN_TRANSACTIONS = 1;
         public static final int REQUEST_HASH_SIZE = 46;
         private static double P_SELECT_MILESTONE;
         private final AtomicBoolean shuttingDown = new AtomicBoolean(false);
         private final List<Neighbor> neighbors = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
    ...


    As you can clearly see, it has a concept of neighbours, private final List<Neighbor> neighbors = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();, that creates a DAG by forming links.
  2. There's absolutely no mention of the possible attack scenarios and how you plan to mitigate them! There's still a big question mark on this.
  3. There's a ton of information that I, as an investor, wouldn't be interested in. Take for example, the network layer. I get it, that it's there, but what's new in the description? A network layer is anyways supposed to do that.
  4. Your "File storage protocol" looks more like a type of "File Transmission Protocol". Where's the storage part? Will it use some other type of filesystem? Where's the explanation?
  5. You have made a lot of promises with what the final effect would be, but, haven't really shown anything unique that you'd do to achieve them with your implementation.
  6. At this point, I'm confused if you're trying to build a bigger STEEM or a smaller IOTA!

I'll keep adding questions to this list in future, in case I'm interested enough, but, I like to urge you to upload some documents that highlights the uniqueness of your project and not just the effects with already known information like the "functions of a Network Layer". Please don't take it personally. I'm just asking for more clarity.

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