Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ is a very successful piece of modern art: it provokes discussion, it travels the world, it sells for large sums.

Also, it’s literally just a banana duct taped to a wall.

Somehow, someone thought it was worth buying a version of this for $6.2 million at Sothebys…

Enter crypto currency, aka fake internet money built on pyramid schemes and pump and dump confidence tricks. Justin Sun owns the Tron blockchain network and as the top of the pile gets the cream, so he’s able to spend five million quid on… a banana and duct tape.