Ethereum'southward Vitalik Buterin lamented what he regards as an example of the "Justin Sun dictatorship," after the TRON (TRX) founder was implicated in still some other plagiarism controversy.

A contempo rebranding of the BitTorrent File System (BTFS) was met with outrage past Juan Benet, creator of IPFS — or Interplanetary File Organisation. Benet pointed out similarities between the new BTFS logo and that of IPFS, and alleged that the similarities don't cease there. He tweeted:

"Aaaaaahahaha it'south non enough to fork all our lawmaking, rebrand information technology and lie its theirs; copy paste random chunks of our papers, and defraud their investors with a nonsensical mishmash. Tron also can't fifty-fifty retrieve of an original logo."

The BitTorrent Inc Twitter account sprung into defense mode, stating that IPFS should be grateful that BitTorrent has paved the way in the distributed file sharing manufacture:

"Information technology'south non cool to charge #BitTorrent, whose been around for decades perfecting our technology. #IPFS should be grateful BitTorrent lead the way equally a leader in this manufacture to pave manner for others to follow. We should be united!"

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin chimed in on the dispute, decrying the zombification of BitTorrent under the leadership of Justin Dominicus:

"This tweet is honestly painful to read. Information technology'due south like looking at a zombie: the business relationship *looks like* something you've grown upwardly with and known and loved for 15 years, but underneath information technology's just, well, now it's just another appendage of the Sun dictatorship."

Justin Dominicus'south achieve grows

Justin Sun's initial foray into the cryptocurrency space with Tron (TRX) was met with like controversy after sections of the Tron whitepaper were shown to have been lifted wholesale from those of Ethereum, Filecoin and IPFS'south BitSwap.

Tron'due south recently launched DeFi production, Djed, also bore hit resemblances to decentralized lending platform MakerDAO, and Single Collateral Dai.

Buterin defended his use of the word "dictatorship" by pointing to a tweet thread from March which highlighted Tron's recent takeover of Steemit:

In the months since Sun acquired Steemit, yet more accusations have been leveled at the Tron creator, including charges of outright blackmail and large scale censorship.

In 2022, ex-BitTorrent executive Simon Morris fired parting shots at Dominicus on his way out of the company, comparing Sun'due south approach to that of Donald Trump. Morris dismissed the tech behind the Tron blockchain, calling it "a marketing car layered on a very thin veneer of technology."