{"id":3512,"date":"2024-11-30T05:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2024-11-30T05:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:02:29","slug":"costliest-snack-ever-crypto-investor-and-tron-founder-justin-sun-eats-6-2m-duct-taped-banana-the-real-value-is-the-concept-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3512","title":{"rendered":"Costliest Snack Ever? Crypto Investor And Tron Founder Justin Sun Eats $6.2M Duct-Taped Banana: &#8216;The Real Value Is The Concept Itself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency investor and <strong>Tron<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/trx\/usd\">TRX<\/a>) founder <strong>Justin Sun<\/strong> has eaten a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/42116475\/paying-6-24-million-for-a-duct-taped-banana-justin-sun-did-just-that-and-now-hell-eat-it-as-part-of-this-unique-artistic-experience\">$6.2 million duct-taped banana artwork<\/a>, asserting its conceptual value and drawing parallels to digital assets like NFTs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Sun, who outbid six others at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in New York on Nov. 20, consumed the pricey fruit at a news conference in Hong Kong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork, named \u201cComedian,\u201d was initially presented by Italian visual artist <strong>Maurizio Cattelan<\/strong> at the Art Basel Fair Miami in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/11\/42228090\/bitcoin-ethereum-dogecoin-surge-as-traders-raise-risk-appetite-ahead-of-thanksgiving-analyst-says-eth-could-jump-to-highs-not-seen-since-late-2021?itm_source=parsely-api\">Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Surge As Traders Raise Risk Appetite Ahead Of Thanksgiving: Analyst Sets Mid-Term Price Target For ETH At $6K<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one,\u201d Sun posted on <strong>X<\/strong>, formerly <strong>Twitter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many friends have asked me &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/11\/42253045\/62m-duct-taped-banana-becomes-a-snack-as-crypto-mogul-justin-sun-asserts-this-conceptual-artwork-can-be-assembled\" alt=\"Costliest\" snack ever crypto investor and tron founder justin sun eats duct-taped banana: real value is the concept itself>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency investor and Tron (CRYPTO: TRX) founder Justin Sun has eaten a $6.2 million duct-taped banana artwork, asserting its conceptual value and drawing parallels to digital assets like NFTs. What Happened: Sun, who outbid six others at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in New York on Nov. 20, consumed the pricey fruit at a news conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}