Technology and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, who recently announced that he is a diplomat for Grenada, said he is going to space on a Blue Origin flight next year and will invite five people to join him.
The 31-year-old also revealed himself to be the anonymous bidder who paid $28 million at auction in July for a seat to join Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin’s first crewed mission, but time struggles. had to be rescheduled. The closely held commercial space company founded by Bezos said at the time that the unnamed bidder would instead fly on a future voyage.
Sun, originally from China, is ending his leadership of Tron, a cryptocurrency platform he founded. Last week, he announced that he had been appointed as Granada’s representative to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Surya will bring the flag of the Caribbean nation, where he now has citizenship, with him on space travel.
Sun gained global notoriety through its involvement in cryptocurrencies, as well as through a series of high-profile bidding events. In 2019, he won an auction for lunch with Warren Buffett, although with one of America’s richest men for pressurizing Chinese social media Weibo to apologize for “excessively” promoting the event. Afterwards the meal was delayed. He also bid for artist Beeple’s record. The first tweet from Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the non-fungible token and Twitter Inc.’s NFT, though was bid at both events.
A Blue Origin spokesperson confirmed Sun’s upcoming visit and said they had already paid $28 million to Blue Origin’s non-profit Club for the Future.
“Blue Origin’s initiative to take more people into space to see Earth as our common home is extraordinary,” Sun said in a statement on Wednesday. “I felt compelled to help advance that vision through my bidding.”
Sun said the five people he will nominate could include members of the TRON DAO community, long-term holders of the designated coins, and other leaders in fashion, technology, entrepreneurship, and more. Details on the enrollment process and criteria will be announced in the coming months.
Sun will join a small but growing group of ultra-rich adventurers who have bought their way into outer space thanks to competing ventures founded by billionaires like Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who regularly posts money on Twitter to attract followers, returned to Earth on Monday after a 12-day voyage in space.
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