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Posted: 2018-01-26T23:58:51Z | Updated: 2018-01-26T23:58:51Z

This sounds like a bad line in a Planet of the Apes film, but theres now a cryptocurrency based on bananas.

Its called Bananacoin , and was co-founded by entrepreneurs Oleg Dobrovolsky and Alexander Bychkov.

They distribute tokens using the Ethereum blockchain , a decentralized data application often used for cryptocurrency.

Every token equal in value to the current export price of 1 kilogram of bananas is essentially stock in a real organic banana plantation in Laos, where the creators are based. Those bananas are harvested and sold in neighboring China, where the Bananacoin group says the fruits demand is larger than the supply.

Bananacoins have been available since their presale in September 2017, but most of the internet heard about them this month thanks to this tweet.

We live in a post-parody society where it's impossible to invent anything more ridiculous than reality pic.twitter.com/HPGekRKENz

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We live in a post-parody society where it's impossible to invent anything more ridiculous than reality pic.twitter.com/HPGekRKENz

Zack Bloom (@zackbloom) January 20, 2018

Should you lose interest in Bananacoin, you can sell your token back for the market value, or if youre hungry, you can exchange your token for an actual kilogram of bananas.

As an investor, the website says, you also have the right to personally visit the environmentally friendly plantation in the Vientiane province of Laos. The founders even shared its Google map coordinates if you want to look at it (from space).

If you found it hard to grasp the idea of cryptocurrency before, this will probably make it a bit more ... slippery.

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