Last month, Tron Foundation CEO Justin Sun acquired distributed technologies giant BitTorrent, which, on Aug. 14, the Tron community elected as one of 27 super representatives on the network.
Taking to Twitter, Aug. 14, Tron announced that BitTorrent had garnered the 100 million votes needed to become a network super representative.
In the tweet, Joe Joyce, director of engineering at BitTorrent, expressed excitement for the company's growing involvement in Tron:."I want to thank the TRON voting community for electing BitTorrent as a super representative. Everyone here is really excited about being an SR, and we really look forward to working with the other SRs to ensure the future of a decentralized internet."
In mid-June, Tron Foundation CEO Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent for $140 million in an effort to achieve "The world's largest decentralized ecosystem."
BitTorrent is the owner and operator of popular torrent client µTorrent, which reportedly has more than 100 million active users and runs up to 40 percent of the world's internet traffic on a daily basis, according to its website.
µTorrent has also become an SR on the Tron network.
On the Tron protocol and is capable of validating transactions, creating new blocks and competing for block rewards.
Last month, Sun announced his campaign to run for one of 27 SR positions on the Tron network and was elected the following day, garnering 120 million votes by Tron token holders in under 24 hours.
On Aug. 14, Tron started trading on Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitbox.
To promote the new listing, Tron announced a 9,000,000 TRX airdrop available to users until Aug. 22.TRON Airdrop happening on BITBOX now.
Tron Community Elects BitTorrent as Super Representative and Airdrops 9 Million TRX
Published on Aug 16, 2018
by Cryptoslate | Published on Coinage
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