Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON, bought the banana artwork during a Sotheby's art auction in New York last week.

Justin Sun uploaded a video of himself eating the $6.2 million absurdist piece conceptualized by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

Justin Sun, who purchased the work just last week, also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who originally sold the fruit for $0.25

Justin Sun fulfilled his promise to eat the controversial artwork at a glamorous hotel in Hong Kong, describing the taste as "really quite good".

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday

The Five' panelists discuss cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, who purchased a $6.2 million banana duct-taped to a wall and later ate the fruit.

The winning bidder of Maurizio Cattelan’s famed banana duct-taped to a wall installation immediately pulled it off the wall and ate it. This isn't the first time this has happened.

A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work Comedian - a banana duct-taped to a wall - at Sotheby's auction house in New York.

The crypto entrepreneur who bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million last week has eaten it. Before taking a bite, Sun sang the praises of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, arguing conceptual art was similar to cryptocurrency as he described the banana as “iconic.