Axios - Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall — aka "Comedian," by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — then ate it during a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday. Why it matters: Arguably, it doesn't. But it's a bit of a metaphor for our times, Axios' Dave Lawler writes. Manhattan fruit vendor Shah Alam sold the banana that Sotheby's went on to sell for $6.2 million for 35 cents. When The N.Y. Times tracked him down and filled him in on the sale, he cried. "I am a poor man. I have never had this kind of money," he said. "I have never seen this kind of money."
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