Cryptos and the 6 million banana

Published on November 29, 2024 at 8:52 p.m. / Modified on November 29, 2024 at 8:53 p.m.

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Cryptocurrencies are successful, but not all. Bitcoin is breaking records and came close to the symbolic $100,000 mark after the election of Donald Trump, who became very favorable to digital assets. But other cryptos are not celebrating as much and remain below the levels they reached during the pandemic. Not sure that Justin Sun’s show on Friday in Hong Kong will be enough to rekindle the flame.

The Chinese cryptoentrepreneur made a spectacle of himself by eating a $6.2 million banana. The one that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan taped to a white wall in 2019, creating Comedianhis best-known work. Work that Justin Sun had purchased for more than 6 million the previous week. Eating this banana was supposed to bring together art and cryptos (and probably to promote the latter), said the founder of the Tron platform, who planned to settle in Geneva at the end of 2021, after being appointed Grenada’s ambassador to the WTO.

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