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. Tron officials told Decrypt on Friday that it is in communication with the vendor, and that Sun currently still intends to purchase the bananas.
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 on Thursday.
To thank Mr. Shah Alam, I’ve decided to buy 100,000 bananas from his stand in New York’s Upper East Side. These bananas will b
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