Justin Sun Giving Away 2 Teslas After Drawing Controversy

Update #2 (2019-03-30): In light of the negative news, and with a stated desire of increasing public support of blockchain, Sun has recently announced that he will honor the original drawing, and give away two Teslas. The goal, based on Sun’s recent Medium post, is to increase transparency in the blockchain. This goal had obviously been obscured by the poor management of the drawing. However, by honoring the original drawing, Sun hopes to move back toward that goal. He said: “I personally believe the industry needs to have more transparency, reliability, and openness so that people both inside the industry and out trust blockchain in general and TRON in particular. My mission is to create positive change, and I hope people will continue to join that crusade.” Sun’s hope, clearly, is that the giveaway will redeem the lost community credibility from the original mishaps. Whether this occurs or not remains to be seen. However, by honoring the original drawing, there will at the very least be accountability and trust increasing.

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Update #1 (2019-03-30): After some interesting research by a number of crypto Twitter users, Justin Sun apparently did a complete redraw for the Tesla and other prizes. The originally selected winner, user @uzgaroth, was initially upset — claiming that Sun had scammed him. Through the course of the Twitter exchange, Sun repeatedly apologized and finally offered the man a round trip ticket to the niTROn summit in 2020. @uzgaroth responded with a comment regarding his six-year-old son’s desire for the Tesla. Overall, the exchange has continued to be heated, and others are joining in, with calls that the entire drawing was a scam. Of note, the original true winner, @pennykoin1 has since responded with a number of interesting Tweets, offering his own mock giveaway, and calling Sun his archenemy. Regardless of the final choices for the giveaway, Sun had apparently lost some credibility with a host of Twitter users among the crypto community. Original article: The drawing was conducted by TWrench, making the drawing data public. The analysis by @CryptoJohnGalt reveals that the drawing began by choosing a bot, which was then bypassed. However, successive draws through number 88 are recorded on the site.

1/ So @justinsuntron did 88 draws using the Tesla giveaway tweet

– 1st draw (from @Tronfoundation acct) was on March 26th at 12:44am. Winner from that draw was @kozmenko2017, a bot

– Draws 2 – 88 were done anonymously but from ip hashes/time stamps were clearly the same person pic.twitter.com/nV6gXgYQSQ

— John Galt (@CryptoJohnGalt) March 28, 2019

The questions arose due to the eventual selection of draw number 57 out of 88. This draw makes the winning Twitter user @uzgaroth, who appears in the now-removed video. However, analysis by John Galt seems to show a previous winner, draw number 24 out of 88, was a Twitter user named @pennykoin1. Making matters more interesting is the fact that, based on his Twitter feed, @uzgaroth is a very strong supporter of TRON. Galt concludes his Twitter statement by stating:

Hard to say exactly what Justin’s trying to pull here, but it’s pretty clear he’s trying to pull something, amiright?

Justin Sun is Pushing Back

The video, which would provide complete transparency, has since been removed. Apparently, the removal was a glitch. Sun said:

We shared a video of the selection process for transparency. Due to the large size of the video, Twitter wasn’t able to compress it properly resulting in a glitch. We will contact Twitter to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We apologize to the community for the mishap.

We shared a video of the selection process for transparency. Due to the large size of the video, Twitter wasn’t able to compress it properly resulting in a glitch. We will contact Twitter to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We apologize to the community for the mishap.

— Justin Sun🌞 (@justinsuntron) March 28, 2019

BeInCrypto will stay on top of the developing story. Obviously, if the draw was fraudulent or rigged, that would be a major black mark on the community perception of Sun. However, as he said, it may simply have been a glitch or technical issue. Do you think the drawing was rigged, or is it just a case of complexity and reporting details gone awry? Let us know in the comments below!