“I want to be the Elon Musk of Cryptos. »» At 34, the Chinese Justin Sun, founder of the Cryptocurrency Tron platform, is part of this cryptogalaxy which was entangled by the American president, Donald Trump, and makes him allegiance, hoping to accelerate his own fortune. Like his mentor, recently converted to Bitcoins, man lives in this world made of OCD and influence traffic, apparently virtual, but where very real money flows to waves.
On November 21, 2024, at Sotheby’s, in New York, Justin Sun thus bought the work at auction ActorFrom the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan – a simple banana stuck by a sparadrap against a wall. Price: $ 6.24 million (5.8 million euros). “It’s not just a work of artsaid Justin Sun. It is a cultural phenomenon that connects the worlds of art, memes and the community of cryptocurrencies. »» This is especially the demonstration that we can make a fortune from nothing – a banana and a sparadrap -, just like in cryptocurrencies, digital tokens which are only worth by the confidence that investors grant them.
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