{"id":242617,"date":"2019-11-18T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=242617"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:02:27","slug":"justin-sun-makes-a-critical-error-with-his-pornhub-hype-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/justin-sun-makes-a-critical-error-with-his-pornhub-hype-train","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Makes a Critical Error with His Pornhub Hype Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love or (more likely) hate him, Justin Sun is a well-known figure within the crypto industry. He\u2019s rather infamous about how he overhypes his various projects as a founder of the TRON Foundation<\/a>, giving out pseudo-facts about TRON compared to other blockchains. Sun\u2019s overhyping cost him a bit of PR this time as the man misread the entire situation and just made a fool of himself.<\/p>\n

Grabbing Every Chance<\/h2>\n

Justin Sun\u2019s latest attempt to overhype his blockchain comes from his announcement in TRX\u2019s positions in the Pornhub payment crises, where he misread the situation in his eagerness to advertise his brand.<\/p>\n

For a little context, PayPal has recently barred<\/a> Pornhub from making use of its payment facility in order to pay the porn site\u2019s hundreds of thousands of models. A move that\u2019s still confusing to many as to exactly why they did it. The move left hundreds of thousands of actors \u201cstranded\u201d due to them having relied on the payment option to earn their living.<\/p>\n

A Hyped Up Blunder<\/h2>\n

Justin Sun and his TRON Foundation dove on this as quickly as they could get ready to jump. They boldly proclaimed that TRX was the site\u2019s solutions and that everything was fine as long as Pornhub had TRON to help it in its dire times. Justin Sun boldly dove in promising aid when the news came out, but the actual blunder would come a few days later.<\/p>\n

After TRON moved around its pieces and double-checked their next PR stunt, they gave an official statement about how users are capable of facilitating payments to Pornhub via its TRX coin.<\/p>\n

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Pornhub announced that all its models have been ditched by payment giant PayPal. Don't worry, #TRX<\/a> is already accepted on Pornhub. You can pay with TRX instead of Paypal now. #TRON<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/RWF80QKi6B<\/a><\/p>\n

— TRON DAO (@trondao) November 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n