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October 9, 2020by Laura Shin

Abuse and Ethical Lapses: What Happened When Justin Sun Acquired BitTorrent

Freelance reporter and audio producer Chris Harland-Dunaway speaks about his long investigative story on Tron founder Justin Sun after his acquisition of BitTorrent. In this episode, Harland-Dunaway describes:

  • how after his acquisition of peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent Justin Sun straddled the China-West divide 
  • Sun’s background, his early success and how he got into cryptocurrency
  • how he treated the US-based employees differently from those based in China
  • how Sun made a threat to kill an employee’s family over an anonymous employee question about what would happen is TRX went to $0
  • an incident in which Sun hit an employee
  • how Sun handled ethical issues that cropped up around scammers on the app store on Tron, with piracy on BitTorrent product BT Movie and with dark web-style content on BT Live
  • why he believes Sun’s biggest liability is his lack of empathy as both a manager and entrepreneur

Thank you to our sponsor! 

Crypto.com: http://crypto.com

Episode links: 

Christopher Harland-Dunaway: https://twitter.com/ChrisHDeee

Justin Sun: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron

Tron Foundation: https://twitter.com/Tronfoundation

Chris’s article on Justin in The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china

Links from news recap:

https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-has-never-been-healthier

Posted in: 2020, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, BitTorrent, blockchain, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, Justin Sun, tron, TRX

Our guest on this episode:
Chris Harland-Dunaway - Freelance reporter and audio producer

Chris Harland-Dunaway

Freelance reporter and audio producer

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