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.

Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts on X/Twitter.

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun praises artist for creating Comedian artwork, before downing it on live stream at The Peninsula hotel.

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun ate a banana, part of the $6.2 million artwork "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan, at a Hong Kong press conference.

A Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur has eaten a banana from a $6.2million (£4.9million) artwork he purchased at Sotheby's auction house in New York last week. Justin Sun consumed the fruit, which forms part of Maurizio Cattelan's 2019 work 'Comedian',

Man eats banana' would not normally be news, but he's spent five million quid on it so it might be the world's most valuable banana.

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

Chinese-born Justin Sun paid $6.2million for a piece of artwork consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall and ate the fruit in Hong Kong

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.