Justin Sun wants to travel more. But there is too much to do.
“There are too many exciting things in crypto every week,” he said in a December interview with Coendesk at Hong Kong. “I really don’t take vacation time. It’s hard to escape for a week.”
If Sun took an extended vacation, it would probably be for Mars, he said. But only for a two -way trip.
“I think the only thing [that] You can change your mind in Crypto is Mars’s exploration, “he said.
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The founder of Tron says that encryption trade would be difficult for the red planet, since its distance from Earth means a significant delay time. “I’m not going to die on Mars.”
But, it would not be as bad as commerce in Coinbase in 2013. Those were the first days when orders books were thin and before the matching engines were invented.
“In 2013, if you wanted to sell Bitcoin in Coinbase, they made you wait a week to find out if it was sold,” he said. “He had to establish a price range, and they would later notify him about the sale and the final price.”
“It was like being on Mars.”
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You can see why Sun does not have time to travel.
The founder of Tron is relentless. Since he founded the block chain in 2017, SUN has established himself as one of the most influential people in Asian cryptography. Its X account has 3.7 million followers. Tron has 125 million active users. More than $ 50 billion in USDT are negotiated on the network daily.
Around SUN, there is a universe of affiliated and advised companies, such as HTX (Exchange), Bitgo (Custody) and Rainberry (previously Bittorrent Inc., which has a cryptographic connection despite the fact that it is a P2P file exchange service).
Even so, when Condesk organized an interview with Sun, the idea was to see if Defi’s face in Asia would talk about something more than crypto.
Surely there is more for man than digital assets, right?
We renounce ten minutes.
For the sun, everything in life touches cryptography, and cryptography touches everything in life.
Even art.
Sun, an avid collector, has works by Picasso and Warhol. He recently bought and ate a banana of $ 6.2 million that was part of a work of art called “comedian”, which made fun of the concept of modern and expensive art.
Which turned out to be a Bitcoin metaphor.
“The banana stuck to the wall is not about the physical art work itself. It is a concept, an image, instead of something physical,” he said.
“When I first learned about Bitcoin, I thought it was great because you can pass customs without anyone knowing that you carry wealth. It is freedom. Banana has the same effect.”
Except that if someone eats it, as the sun did.
“This type of conceptual art is new for regulation. It is not about the physical piece. It is about the concept,” he said. “Regulators do not know how to handle it, just like they don’t know how to handle cryptography. It doesn’t matter what laws or rules impose, you can’t prevent someone from recording a banana to a wall.”
The game is not escapism
Back Irl, Sun has a weak point for the Caribbean. Thanks to its obsession with Tropico, a world construction simulation game set in the tropics of the Cold War, is a region that visits as a virtual dictator under the rules of the game. But Sun prefers geopolitical neutrality.
“I run a neutral island, pleased both the United States and the Soviet Union by giving each island for its military bases,” he said. “Because, why not? They pay me for it.”
Sun says it’s a Maxi PC, and not a console player. It’s steam for him, not Xbox Live. Apart from Tropico, he is a fan of the civilization strategy game IV. Once he played for 24 hours in a row.
“One more turn, one more turn,” he kept saying. Find the addictive game because it reminds you what you do in the real world.
Justin Sun is not universally worshiped in the world of cryptography. But few can look the other way.
“Justin Sun is like an episode of Game of Thrones,” says the same man. “No matter what you think of him, you must keep looking.”
Recently, he broke Bitcoiners through his investment in Bitgo, which admits Bitcoin wrapped (WBTC), a piece of commercial infrastructure that allows Bitcoin liquidity in Defi.
Almost instantly after it was announced, Sun’s tougher critics left the carpentry with all kinds of crazy accusations.
Coinbase, which has its own wrapped BTC product, eliminated Sun’s version, citing its “listing standards.” Sun and Coinbase now continue their argument in court.
The CEO of Bitgo, Mike Belshe, called the strongest critics of Sun “intellectually dishonest.” Everyone had their own card to pump, he claimed.
Back to Thrones game.
In the first season of the program, it seemed that the writers were establishing the character of Ned Stark as the protagonist, until he was beheaded towards the end of the first season.
“I thought: ‘This must be a mistake. Someone will come and say that everything is a misunderstanding.’ But no … it had really left!” It’s how Sun remembers having seen the program.
This surprise hooked the public and made Game of Thrones one of his best qualified shows in the history of the network, surpassing the sopranos, and kept the spectators attached to the end.
To really understand, and judge, Sol, you will only have to wait until the final episode.
