BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron

Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by GuthL on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:03PM (#17350986)

Bitcoin and ethereum are such successes! On a smaller scale but growing, 0x is doing an amazing job.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by zaidf on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:34PM (#17351176)

What’s their end product to date besides speculation?

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by echelon on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:06PM (#17351965)

I'm thrilled to participate in building something that won't be government controlled. It's the same excitement I had when the web wasn't Facebook and Google.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by bredren on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:30PM (#17351437)

It is in heavy use in black markets and for illegal enterprise such as ransom. So the product is successful transactions outside many laws.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:30PM (#17352354)

The same can be said of cash. Can we agree that this has been played to death by now?

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by zaidf on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:52AM (#17352661)

Cash can be used at tens of thousands of locations for non-shady uses. Same can’t be said of crypto.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by rootsudo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:54AM (#17354469)

Same can be said for the Internet, cars, cell phones, hell a paper and pen.

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