Банан, приклеенный скотчем к стене, продали за $6,2 млн. Фрукт приклеил к стене итальянский художник Маурицио Каттелан. Своё произведение он создал в 2019 году.
Всего таких бананов было три, первых два продали за $120 тыс. Предварительная стоимость последнего составляла от 1 млн до 1,5 млн долларов. Новый владелец банана заявил, что в ближайшие дни лично съест его.
Банан, приклеенный скотчем к стене, продали за $6,2 млн. Фрукт приклеил к стене итальянский художник Маурицио Каттелан. Своё произведение он создал в 2019 году.
Всего таких бананов было три, первых два продали за $120 тыс. Предварительная стоимость последнего составляла от 1 млн до 1,5 млн долларов. Новый владелец банана заявил, что в ближайшие дни лично съест его.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. Friday’s performance was part of a larger shift. For the week, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 2%, 2.9%, and 3.5%, respectively. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read."
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