The 5 most puzzling things about cryptocurrency in 2019
With only six days until 2019 ends, it will be interesting to take a look back at this year and see which events related to the cryptocurrency industry may stand out, and the results.
Justin Sun's Lunch with Buffett
Earlier this year, one charity snapped up a lunch with legendary Wall Street investor Warren Buffett as one of the rewards for the donation. TRON CEO Justin Sun has won a lunch with a famous businessman for $4.5 million.
Sun's goal is to discuss cryptocurrency technology with Buffett and try to convince him that encryption technology has room for development in the future. Unfortunately, the lunch had to be postponed and eventually canceled, which caused widespread concern throughout the cryptocurrency industry.
Craig Wright and Satoshi Nakamoto
For years, Craig Wright has been trying to prove his identity as Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. However, Wright never touched the part of Bitcoin that belonged to Satoshi, and this was the only way for him to prove to the world that he was indeed Satoshi.
In a recent attempt, he claimed he had "substantial evidence" that included historical documents, such as a handwritten version of Bitcoin's white paper, which included "coffee stains and rusty staples." But it also doesn’t quite prove that he is Satoshi, which was certainly an interesting statement at the time.
TRON and Tesla's giveaway problem
Earlier this year, TRON and its CEO Justin Sun once again received a fair amount of negative attention in an interesting PR incident due to a Tesla giveaway. Some people may recall that Sun announced that TRON has partnered with Tether, which was supposed to be a gift to Tesla ModelS.
Many are skeptical, but many are also hopeful. The Twitter announcement blew up, and when the time came for the lottery, Sun used the random drawing software TWrench. However, when he posted the video, it was quickly removed due to a "glitch" and "too large file size". When the community managed to dig it up, they realized it was fake, and the "winner" name appeared before the drawing began.
Digibyte delisted from cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex
A crypto project called DigiByte has put in a lot of effort to get listed on some of the biggest exchanges, and Poloniex is at the top of the list. The project was eventually listed, but was quickly removed from the exchange recently.
Why? The reason is simple, the founder of the project took to Twitter to tell the whole story of the incident and criticized many big names in the crypto industry, including Binance CEO CZ, TRON CEO Justin Sun, and even Poloniex itself. DigiByte was quickly removed from exchanges, and many believe this is why.
Binance abandons BTT
A few months ago, another major failure came from Binance, which delisted 30 trading pairs from its platform, including the TRON-based BitTorrent (BTT). Interestingly, this is the first coin issued by Binance Launchpad, and it even started the trend of initial public offerings (IEOs) that marked the year.
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