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					Originally Posted by  gunboat82
					 
				 
				Ding ding ding. He didn't pay $6.2M for banana art. He paid $6.2M for the kind of publicity you can only get by doing something as attention-grabbing as paying $6.2M for a banana. 
			
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 I agree. He was buying the notoriety.
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					Originally Posted by  gunboat82
					 
				 
				Someone check the movement on his crypto holdings. I don't know how to track that stuff, but I'll bet he's the lesser fool in this scenario. 
			
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 Indeed. Since he made his money finding greater fools for a Ponzi scheme, he decided to part with a small fraction on the ultimate (until now) celebration of foolishness.