Ever wondered what millions of dollars tasted like? Well, apparently, a banana.
Justin Sun, founder of layer-1 blockchain Tron, ate the banana that he bought for $6.24 million last week at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in New York. The yellow fruit was part of Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous 2019 conceptual artwork of a duct-taped banana, called “Comedian,” which has become a highly memeable art piece—with two related meme coins to boot.
At the Peninsula hotel in Hong Kong, the Tron founder gathered journalists to give a speech about the “iconic” artwork he had recently purchased. Behind him was a plain white wall with Comedian taped to it. He then peeled it off the wall and started chowing down.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun said to the crowd after his first bite, according to the Guardian. “It’s really quite good.”
Fortunately, the banana hadn’t been sitting there for five years before Sun decided to eat it.
After winning the bid for the artwork, the Tron founder was provided with instructions on how to properly present...
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