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"There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. Let's create new coin - using TRON blockchain - to reward seeders automatically" would be the same, but with no bullshit.

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"There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. So let's require users to pay us money for our penny stock tokens"

Making it a better sentence is possible, making the system itself exist in the real world much less so. You can't make systems like this as described due to the reality that all decentralized systems face; the sybil problem, and by extension all the problems that occur when people try to solve that with a web of trust.

Why does it work in Bitcoin and other PoW blockchains?

It didn't work; that's why Bitcoin has steadily become more centralized until it became non-decentralized enough to be practical.

So are we arguing semantics now and the exact definition of the word "decentralized"? Well alright, let's agree about this for the sake of argument.

What stops this proposed project from working in the same "decentralized" way that Bitcoin and other PoW schemes are "decentralized" right now, and are working practically? Why wouldn't it work in torrents?

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