It turns out there’s not much money in the banana stand. 

After purchasing a duct-taped banana at auction for $6.24 million last week, crypto billionaire Justin Sun announced he would reward the banana’s original vendor—a Manhattan fruit merchant who parted ways with it for 25 cents—by offering to buy 100,000 additional bananas from the man’s sidewalk stand.

But shortly thereafter, the vendor dismissed the plan as nearly impossible to execute and said it would reap barely any profit—causing Sun to scrap the banana buyback today and reconsider his path forward.

On Thursday, Sun announced that as a gesture of gratitude to Shah Alam, the fruit vendor who “inadvertently became a crucial contributor” to a work of “profound cultural and artistic significance” by providing the banana in question, the Tron blockchain founder would purchase 100,000 bananas from Alam’s stand and distribute them “free worldwide” to eaters who presented valid I.D. 

“I hope this initiative will bring his story to a broader audience and, one day, I look forward to visiting his fruit stand in person to express my gratitude again,” Sun said of Alam o

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Author: Sander Lutz