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Bitcoin Billionaire Who Spent Millions on Single Banana Vows to Buy Thousands of Bananas from Sidewalk Vendor Who Sold Original Fruit for 25 Cents

Justin Sun HE Justin Sun Shah Alam Bitcoin Maurizio Cattelan
Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun eats a banana artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, in Hong Kong on November 29, 2024, after buying the provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at a New York auction for $6.2 million. (Credit: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

A Bitcoin billionaire who spent more than $6 million on a famous art piece featuring a single banana has vowed to purchase thousands of bananas from the sidewalk vendor who originally sold the banana to the artist for 25 cents.

Justin Sun, the founder of the cryptocurrency platform TRON, pledged in a post to X Thursday that he would purchase 100,000 bananas from Shah Alam, the Upper East Side street vendor who sold the now-famous banana to artist Maurizio Cattelan.

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