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Abuse and Ethical Lapses: What Happened When Justin Sun Acquired BitTorrent - Ep.146
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
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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
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