Shuli Ren
Just when Bitcoin seemed to be breaking out of its long winter, a publicity stunt by one of the crypto industry’s most prominent billionaires is raising questions as to whether this asset class should be in mainstream investors’ portfolios.
Justin Sun, the Trump family’s earliest and biggest crypto backer, is suing a Chinese actress and her parents to recover what he describes as a bride price of 30 million yuan ($6.3 million). In a long essay posted on X, titled “My Girlfriend Jing Tian,” he recounts their relationship and portrays Jing as high-maintenance and money-hungry.
