Meet The Crypto Billionaire Who Helped The Trumps Make $400 Million
Justin Sun loves a publicity stunt. But in bailing out Donald Trump’s crypto venture—netting the president and his family $400 million—Sun has boosted his efforts to create a global payment system, using his Tron platform, with 300 million users and counting.
Chinese blockchain entrepreneur Justin Sun’s admiration of Donald Trump began in middle school, while he was living in Huizhou, a city of 6 million in China’s Guangdong province just north of Hong Kong. Sun’s teacher encouraged his class to watch American television to learn vernacular English, so Sun tapped peer-to-peer file sharer BitTorrent, a service that years later he would own, and began downloading reruns of The Apprentice.
The reality show did a lot more…
