A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who 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. Chinese-born Justin Sun peeled off the duct tape and enjoyed the banana in a press conference held in The Peninsula Hong Kong,

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, 34, ate a banana on Nov. 29, just a week after spending US$6.2 million (S$8.3 million) on an artwork featuring the fruit duct-taped to a wall. Sun said it was "much better than other bananas" after his first bite, according to AFP .

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