Cryptocurrency investor and Tron (CRYPTO: TRX) founder Justin Sun has eaten a $6.2 million duct-taped banana artwork, asserting its conceptual value and drawing parallels to digital assets like NFTs.
What Happened: Sun, who outbid six others at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Nov. 20, consumed the pricey fruit at a news conference in Hong Kong on Friday.
The artwork, named “Comedian,” was initially presented by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan at the Art Basel Fair Miami in 2019.
“To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one,” Sun posted on X, formerly Twitter.
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