It's still just money laundering

For anyone else wondering:

"The artwork owner is given a certificate of authenticity that the work was created by Cattelan as well as instructions about how to replace the fruit when it goes bad."

It's one banana, what could it cost, 6.2 million?

Anyone who says the rich deserve to BE rich because they are "clever businessmen" need to repeatedly kicked in the balls.

Most folks could live comfortably for the rest of their lives on what this idiot spent on a banana.

This is a special keystone headline used to warn time travellers to keep on driving to the next timeline, this one is cooked, attempt no landing here

I'll never understand spending that money like that instead of helping kids with cancer.

Probably one of the several reasons why I am not rich.

Fuck this insufferable world.

surely the banana is rotten by now wasn't this years ago yup he just replaced the banana so he just ate... a banana, which he could've done with every previous banana that went rotten too if he doesn't mind soft bananas

Wow food prices have really risen.

I respect every part except "crypto entrepreneur".

What a waste of money, dude could have eaten it for free like this guy. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/david-datuna-banana-art-basel-trnd/index.html

There's never been a better time to reference Arrested Development;

"There's ALWAYS, money, in the Banana Stand"

wow that is a very long article to say bullshit

Banana as Veblen good

NFT artists kind of hide behind the oldschool art world to justify it...

I think it shows how stupid that world is.

The point of art is to move people, to make them think and feel something by conveying the artist's thoughts, not be a store of value. And while I've been to museums with gorgeous pieces, if you're paying millions for a painting, at some point most of that value is the gratification of hoarding it. That same money could buy you an incredible experience in today's art landscape, but it's not about the experience, is it? And NFTs are like the perfect deconstruction of that.

That being said, OP I am downvoting your post because eyeballs are exactly what crypto bros want, no offense :P