Twitter has seen a fight to the death between Justin Sun of TRON and Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum.
It all started when Juan Benet, better known for having created the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) protocol that allows storing information in a decentralized way, accused Justin Sun, CEO of the TRON Foundation, of shamelessly copying his project passing it off as new.
Aaaaaahahaha it’s not enough to fork all our code, rebrand it and lie its theirs; copy paste random chunks of our papers, and defraud their investors with a nonsensical mishmash. Tron also can’t even think of an original logo 🤯🤣 https://t.co/h6EGPNwXzQ
— Juan Benet (@juanbenet) April 16, 2020
As everyone knows, the IPFS protocol is open source and therefore anyone can fork and improve it to make it accessible without limits and without any cost: just download the files and start the program to access and use the protocol.
The BitTorrent File System (BTFS) protocol was launched in test phase last summer and allows to have a decentralized peer-to-peer storage system; in October last year, the mainnet was launched with thousands of nodes already active.
In addition to the accusation of copying the project, the logo is also very similar to the one used by IPFS, i.e. a hexagon that recalls a cube in perspective. Hence Benet complains about Justin Sun’s acquisition of BitTorrent.
It’s really sad— BitTorrent used to be great tech — our generation grew up admiring it and the team that put it together. Such a shame to see this great name put through this kind of embarrassment.
— Juan Benet (@juanbenet) April 16, 2020
It was not long before Sun, who was called upon to defend his project, replied to the charges.
Seriously? Do you own the Hexagon shape? You need to reexamine your ego bro. A shame that #IPFS hasn't delivered on filecoin system in 3 years & #BTFS/#BTT have been running smoothly. You're a vaporware scamming your investors w/ concept for a long time. Shame on you!
— H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@justinsuntron) April 16, 2020
As if that wasn’t enough, Vitalik Buterin also joined the conversation by calling Sun a dictator, referring also to the issue that occurred with the Steem case.
This tweet is honestly painful to read. It's like looking at a zombie: the account *looks like* something you've grown up with and known and loved for 15 years, but underneath it's just, well, now it's just another appendage of the Sun dictatorship
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 16, 2020
Certainly, all his recent mishaps are not working in his favour, including the one involving the stablecoin, whose name has been changed to JUST.
