Justin Sun is 34 years old, a fortune of, crypto up, crypto down, 1.34 billion dollars and a banana stuck to the wall for which he has paid six of those millions. The work of artist Maurizio Cattelan It only dates from 2019, but she looks oldone of those jokes that lose their funny quickly, a meme that becomes instantly universal, a joke that Cattelan and his dealer have rubbed their hands over.
Justin Sun It exists because these types of millionaires, apparently, have to do so and, above all, because they have decided to tell it: in the face of the unwritten law that the very rich bunker and recreational plaza in rocket They keep their secrets quiet and their identities silenced, he announces with great fanfare every whim, and makes profitable in visibility what you lose in money. A total of 78.4 million for a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti are many, or few, or we no longer know what they are. Nothing about him sounds real: he lives in the Grenadines, fleeing taxes and controls, but apparently he is also Prime Minister of the Free Republic of Liberlanda self-proclaimed micronation on the Danube Plain whose reserves are counted in cryptocurrency.
Justin Sun seems too flamboyant to be dangerous, and enough to confuse his cravings with genius manias. There’s just one problem: like the banana story, they’ve told that same story too many times. It is the same as Elon Muskthe same one that narrates trump. Possess a position in a country that does not exist would sound like a jokebut like Cattelan’s banana, it is not important what it is, but what it entails, and everything to which he dedicates his time and money awakens deeply disturbing echoes: only the very rich have the capacity to convert a tulip bulb into 10,000 florinsand plunging a country into ruin without even a shrug. And they will. We should know by now.