A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday.

Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who paid $6.2 million for a duct-taped banana art piece, says he wants to buy 100,000 more from the original fruit vendor. The viral artwork, titled "Comedian,

A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work Comedian - a banana duct-taped to a wall - at Sotheby's auction house in New York.

The Manhattan vendor who sold the banana only received 25 cents. Now, the buyer of the conceptual work has offered the fruit stand a bigger payday.

One could interpret, as its artist intended, the $6.2 million banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall as an absurd piece of art. The crypto entrepreneur who bought it made it a very expensive snack. Tron founder Justin Sun ate the banana at a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday after purchasing the right to display Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” installation last week.

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall -- by eating the fruit.

A silver duct-taped banana, once sold at a Manhattan fruit stand where bananas are sold for 35 cents each, went for millions at a Sotheby’s auction last week