Cheap TON, Expensive Illusions

After Pavel Durov's post about reducing the fee in TON by six times, I saw many positive posts in public forums. At first, I even believed it was great, but I still don't understand—what will change?

Firstly, why does Pavel Durov decide whether the fee will be reduced or not? We are for decentralization, which means validators should decide. Yet, he's already stating it will be reduced. Oh right, most validators belong to Telegram and TON Foundation.

Secondly, what will a low fee change? Max gives an example that USDT will be cheap to transfer, leading to mass adoption. Frankly, it won't. In Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, the cost of transferring USDT is negligible, yet everyone still uses the TRON network.

It's all about trust. Trust in USDT on TON and trust in USDT on TRX are different things. Tell someone you'll transfer USDT on TON, and they'll scoff Most use USDT on TRC-20 (TRON), and many don't even know other USDTs exist, let alone TON. Although, due to the similarity in names, someone might be deceived.

Overall, the news is certainly positive, but no key changes will occur. We await five more announcements from Pavel, as all official TON channels only publish his posts. There haven't been other posts for a month, and TON Foundation has vanished from the radar.

There's a rumor that Pavel is preparing for a major deal and has erased everything damaging to his reputation, banning any publications. But what kind of deal could this be?

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