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Justin Sun Pro tip: If you’re one of the shadiest players in the cryptocurrency industry and want to avoid mainstream press attention on your $30 million bribe to the US president-elect via his cryptocurrency grift, just spend another $6 million on a concept art piece involving a real banana, and eat it.d That stunt will land you no fewer than five New York Times articles (plus a letter to the editor) in the span of eight days, with not a single mention of the Trump contribution. I will give his backstory as briefly as I can, but I’m afraid it won’t be very brief. In 2017, Chinese citizen and then-resident Justin Sun launched an ICO for his Tron project, raising $70 million days after China banned ICOs, and then fled the country. He bought BitTorrent and tried to turn it into a cryptocurrency company by merging it with Tron, shocking BitTorrent executives who realized that Sun’s “market making” operations were just blatant insider trading. He did another ICO, this time shopping for a lawyer who would agree to write a letter he hoped would shield him from liability if he was later sued by the US SEC (and he was [W3IGG]). He bought the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange from Circle, after their attempt to turn it from “shitcoin casino numero uno” (as per a former employee) into a legitimate operation failed upon the realization that the lax standards were the whole selling point. Sun promised to return it to its original anything-goes glory, at one point screaming at an employee