{"id":28964,"date":"2020-09-21T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28964"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:19:56","slug":"tron-foundation-apologises-for-overstating-its-user-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tron-foundation-apologises-for-overstating-its-user-base\/","title":{"rendered":"TRON Foundation apologises for overstating its user base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRON Foundation apologised for the claim that its number of users had exceeded the world&#8217;s population.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On 19 September, TRON founder Justin Sun posted the following message on Twitter (now deleted):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe number of #TRON users exceeded 10 billion! The next target is 100 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This news provoked equal parts confusion and amusement in the community, given that the Earth&#8217;s population has not yet reached 8 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\\\"attachment_110784\\\" style=\\\"width: 521px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignnone\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" aria-describedby=\\\"caption-attachment-110784\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-110784\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-69.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"TRON Foundation apologises for overstating its user base\\\" width=\\\"511\\\" height=\\\"334\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-69.jpg 511w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-69-300x196.jpg 300w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\\\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\\\"caption-attachment-110784\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Screenshot of Sun&#8217;s deleted tweet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The original tweet appeared in TRON profiles in several languages. It can still be found on the Vietnamese Twitter account of TRON Foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"vi\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#TRON<\/a> users exceeded 10B! The next target is 100B<\/p>\n<p>The first wallet was created on 25\/6\/2018; 182 days later, the millionth wallet was created on 24\/12\/2018; 625 days later, the 10-millionth wallet was created on 19\/9\/2020<\/p>\n<p>The AVG growth rate has risen from 3,000 to 60,000 per day, a twentyfold increase <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/RVwSmfbLNA\\\">pic.twitter.com\/RVwSmfbLNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRON Foundation Vietnam (@TRON_VIE) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRON_VIE\/status\/1307524445477597187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">September 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As expected, the claims were ridiculed by members of the bitcoin industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#TRON<\/a> apparently just surpassed 10 Billion users on its network.<\/p>\n<p>This is very impressive, especially considering there\u2019s only 7.8 Billion people on earth! <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/acDX6VLY4b\\\">pic.twitter.com\/acDX6VLY4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoWhale\/status\/1307376109831557122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">September 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Most people treated the claim as a joke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#TRON<\/a> apparently just surpassed 10 Billion users on its network.<\/p>\n<p>This is very impressive, especially considering there\u2019s only 7.8 Billion people on earth! <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/acDX6VLY4b\\\">pic.twitter.com\/acDX6VLY4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoWhale\/status\/1307376109831557122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">September 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the TRON Foundation published a post apologising. The author of the erroneous tweet had accidentally swapped &#8216;M&#8217; for &#8216;B&#8217;, which led to the confusion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">(1\/7) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#TRON<\/a> noticed that a message was circulating today on Twitter claiming \u201cTRON Users exceeded 10B\u201d in English. TRON prompted an immediate investigation.<\/p>\n<p>We now release the result to both <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRONICS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#TRONICS<\/a> and the public:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRON Foundation (@Tronfoundation) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tronfoundation\/status\/1307698950963515393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">September 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, TRON founder Justin Sun said he was prepared to hire a troll to promote TRX.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRON Foundation apologised for claiming its user base had surpassed the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1302,951],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-justin-sun","tag-tron"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28965,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}