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

EPISODE · Oct 9, 2020 · 39 MIN

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

from Unconfirmed · host Laura Shin

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

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Oct 9, 2020

Embed this episode

NOW PLAYING

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

0:00 39:57

No transcript for this episode yet

We transcribe on demand. Request one and we'll notify you when it's ready — usually under 10 minutes.

No similar episodes found.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is this episode of Unconfirmed?

This episode is 39 minutes long.

When was this Unconfirmed episode published?

This episode was published on October 9, 2020.

Can I download this Unconfirmed episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.
URL copied to clipboard!