Tron’s acquisition of peer-to-peer giant BitTorrent

It’s been two months since Tron made one of the highlight acquisitions of the year 2018 when it finally closed taking over BitTorrent. BitTorrent’s peer to peer sharing is enjoyed by more than 100 million active users giving Tron a headway of new customers and a significant cryptocurrency adoption. The acquisition included products such as the mobile versions of BitTorrent Play, uTorrent Web and the desktop version of BitTorrent.

Super Representative powers to uTorrent

A few weeks later Tron community members used their representation and voted for uTorrent as a Super Representative (SR) of Tron. The announcement showcased that uTorrent gained more than 120 million votes under 24 hours.

Duties of a Super Representative

Tron’s aim of becoming a decentralised platform means it’s Super Representatives, such as uTorrent, have an essential role to play.

Tron’s SR has to work as key nodes which mean uTorrent is responsible for Blockchain related activities such as validating transactions, creating new blocks and competing for Block rewards on the network.

uTorrent will also help take care of updates on Tron’s network, with an addition of security and transaction modules.

There are 143 Super Representative Candidates for Tron with 27 being elected as Super Representatives according to Tronscan.

BitTorrent’s similarity to Tron

Both Tron and BitTorrent have a primary aim of decentralising the internet. Therefore, the collaboration is excellent regarding marketing and technology efforts.

BitTorrent’s experience in internet decentralisation dates back to 2011 and has come a long way with an extensive infrastructure and a huge user base. Therefore uTorrent gaining Super Representation is ideal for Tron’s platform.

Already hard at work

BitTorrent along with Tron has already developed it’s first product which is the uTorrent web. The uTorrent web is a browser-based torrent client that allows users to play the downloading material instantly.

Justin Sun, the founder of Tron is a hard worker with strong work ethics along with a technically sound team. The constant developments such as the acquisition of BitTorrent has made Tron one of the most popular cryptocurrencies of 2018.