Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, the blockchain company, bought a banana at an art auction in New York for $6.24m. The banana is part of a piece of art called “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan and is a banana that is stuck to a wall with duct tape. Sun ate the banana at a speech he gave about the artwork and said that it was very tasty.
The banana needed to be replaced regularly as bananas go mouldy. Two cryptocurrencies, Banana Tape Wall (BTW) and Comedian (Ban), which are based on the artwork, went up in price after Sun ate the banana. Sun also invested $30m in a project called World Liberty Financial (WLFI), which is going to be a borrowing and lending crypto service on Ethereum.
Sun said that the US is becoming a hub for blockchain and that Bitcoin owes it to Donald Trump.
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