Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun eats a banana paintings composed of a contemporary banana caught to a wall with duct tape in Hong Kong on Friday after shopping for the provocative work of conceptual artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at a New York public sale for $6.2 million.
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Chinese cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun, who final week bought a $6.2 million artwork piece consisting solely of a banana duct taped to a wall, ate the banana on Friday in a transfer he bragged about on social media.
“Many pals have requested me concerning the style of the banana,” Sun wrote in a publish on X alongside a video of him consuming the multimillion-dollar Maurizio Cattelan piece referred to as Comedian.
“To be trustworthy, for a banana with such a again story, the style is of course totally different from an atypical one. I may discern a touch of what Big Mike bananas from 100 years in the past may need tasted like,” mentioned Sun, the founding father of the cryptocurrency platform Tron.
Big Mike bananas — a standard translation of the flavorful Gros Michel banana selection — had been as soon as ubiquitous and have now turn out to be just about inconceivable to search out.
Sun wrote that as because of Shah Alam — the 74-year-old Bangladeshi fruit stand worker who initially offered the banana for simply 25 cents — he would buy 100,000 bananas to be distributed totally free to Alam’s prospects.
Speaking to the New York Times, nevertheless, Alam famous various logistical points with Sun’s proposal.
The revenue on bananas is comparatively low, Alam advised the paper — solely about $6,000 on a purchase order of 100,000 bananas. And Alam is an worker of the fruit stand, not its proprietor.
His wage of $12/hour throughout his 12-hour workday, which affords him a shared basement condominium within the Bronx, wouldn’t be affected by a bulk novelty sale.
This will not be Sun’s first enterprise into multimillion-dollar bids. In 2019, he gained a $4.8 million bid to have lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. In 2021, he put up $28 million to be among the many first passengers on Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, although that journey was in the end canceled.
