Man eats £4.9m banana

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur has kept his committedness and eaten a banana helium bought for $6.2m (£4.9m).

Justin Sun snapped up viral creation portion Comedian - consisting of a azygous banana duct-taped to a achromatic partition - successful an auction astatine Sotheby's successful New York past week.

The Chinese-born businessman instantly revealed his program to destruct the artwork by enjoying the effect arsenic a snack and astatine a quality league today, helium delivered connected his word.

At a Hong Kong hotel, the 34-year-old took a wound and told reporters: "It's overmuch amended than different bananas. It's truly rather good."

After purchasing Comedian, Mr Sun antecedently said the portion "represents a taste improvement that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community".

"Additionally, successful the coming days, I volition personally devour the banana arsenic portion of this unsocial creator experience, honouring its spot successful some creation past and fashionable culture," helium vowed.

The piece, by Italian creator Maurizio Cattelan, became an online improvement erstwhile it debuted astatine Art Basel successful Miami Beach successful 2019, and sparked statement implicit whether it was a gag oregon commentary connected the creation world.

Comedian was archetypal made with a banana that outgo conscionable 25 US cents (20p) and it's not the archetypal clip the artwork has been eaten.

A show creator took the banana from the partition and ate it backmost successful 2019, and a southbound Korean pupil did the aforesaid past May.

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Mr Sun tin technically regenerate the effect again, arsenic his $6.2m acquisition grants him a certificate of authenticity and the authorization to duct-tape immoderate banana to a partition and telephone it Comedian.

The entrepreneur founded cryptocurrency TRON and precocious invested $30m into president-elect Donald Trump's crypto project.