Justin Sun wants him to travel more. But there is too much to do.
“There are too many exciting things that happen in crypto every week,” he said in a December interview with Coindesk at Home in Hong Kong. “I don’t really take a vacation. It’s hard to get away for a week.”
If Sun took prolonged vacation, it would probably be in Mars, he said. But only for a double -sense trip.
“I think the only thing [that] May change their minds on the crypto is the exploration of March, “he said.
The founder of Tron says that crypto trading would be difficult on the red planet because his distance from the earth means significant time. “I’m not going to die on Mars.”
But, it would not be as bad as to negotiate on Coinbase in 2013. It was the first days when the order books were thin and before the corresponding engines were invented.
“In 2013, if you wanted to sell bitcoin on Coinbase, they made you wait a week to find out if it was sold,” he said. “You must have defined a price range, and they would inform you later the sale and the final price.”
“It was like being on Mars.”
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You can see why the sun does not have time to travel.
The founder of Tron is relentless. Since the Blockchain Foundation in 2017, Sun has established himself as one of the most influential people in Asian crypto. Its X account has 3.7 million followers. Tron has 125 million active users. More than $ 50 billion in USDT are negotiated daily on the network.
Around Sun, there is a universe of affiliated and advised companies, such as HTX (Exchange), Bitgo (Guard) and Rainberry (formerly Bittorrent Inc., which has a cryptographic connection even if it is a service P2P file sharing).
However, when Coindesk set up an interview with Sun, the idea was to see if Defi’s face in Asia would talk about something other than crypto.
There is surely more to humans than in digital assets, right?
We abandoned ten minutes.
For the sun, everything in life affects crypto and crypto affects everything in life.
Even art.
Sun, a passionate collector, has works by Picasso and Warhol. He recently bought and ate, a banana of $ 6.2 million which was part of a work of art entitled “Comedian”, which made fun of the concept of modern and expensive art.
Which turned out to be a Bitcoin metaphor.
“The banana stuck on the wall does not concern the physical work itself. It is a concept, an image rather than something physical,” he said.
“When I learned for the first time on Bitcoin, I thought it was cool because you can pass the customs without anyone knowing that you are wealthing. This is freedom. Banana has the same effect. “
Unless someone eats it, as the Sun did.
“This kind of conceptual art is new in regulations. This is not the physical play. It is the concept,” he said. “The regulators do not know how to manage it, just as they do not know how to manage cryptography. No matter the laws or the rules you impose, you cannot prevent someone from sticking a banana on a wall.”
The game is not an escape
Back IRL, the sun has a weakness for the Caribbean. Thanks to his obsession with Tropico, a game of simulation of the world which takes place in the tropics of the Cold War, it is a region which he visits as a virtual dictator under the rules of the game. But the sun prefers geopolitical neutrality.
“I run a neutral island, pleasant in the United States and the Soviet Union by giving everyone an island for their military bases,” he said. “Because, why not? They pay me for that.”
Sun says he is a maximum PC, not a console player. It’s steam for him, not Xbox Live. Aside Tropico, he is a fan of the strategy game on Tour Civilization IV. He played once for 24 hours in a row.
“One more turn, one more turn,” he said. He finds the game addictive because it reminds him of what he does in the real world.
Justin Sun is not universally loved in the crypto world. But few can look away.
“Justin Sun is like an episode of Game of Thrones,” said the man himself. “No matter what you think of him, you have to keep watching.”
Recently, he agitated bitcoiners thanks to his investment in Bitgo, which supports Bitcoin wrapped (WBTC), a trading infrastructure which allows the liquidity of Bitcoin on Defi.
Almost instantly after his announcement, Sun’s hardest criticisms came out of wood with all kinds of crazy accusations.
Coinbase, which has its own enveloped BTC product, has radiated the version of Sun, citing its “registration standards”. Sun and Coinbase now continue their argument in court.
Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe called Sun’s most noisy criticism “intellectually dishonest”. They all had their own token to pump, he said.
Back to Game of Thrones.
During the first season of the show, it appeared that the writers set up the character of Ned Stark as an advance – until he was beheaded towards the end of the first season.
“I said to myself:” It must be a mistake. Someone will say that all this is a misunderstanding. “But no … he was really gone!” This is how Sun remembers looking at the show.
This surprise audience hung the public and made Game of Thrones one of its best rated programs in the history of the network, beating the sopranos and kept the viewers stuck at the end.
To really understand – and judge – the sun, you will only have to wait for the last episode.
