2 weeks ago
Lugano residents woke up contiguous to find that the celebrated Satoshi Nakamoto statue, an ingenious sight-line illusion envisioned by Italian creator Valentina Picozzi, was gone.
The layers of disappearing stripes were lone bare crushed wherever the illusion of Satoshi, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, fading into codification stood since precocious 2024. It was unveiled connected October 25, 2024, astatine Plan B’s Bitcoin forum, arsenic Swiss‑Tether and Lugano raced to marque the metropolis a planetary Bitcoin hub
The theft was first reported by X idiosyncratic @Grittoshi, who suspected it had been thrown successful a water beside the sculpture.
On X, Satoshigallery, the creator task tally by Picozzi, offered a reward of 0.1 BTC to anyone that could assistance find the statue.
“We are offering 0.1 btc to whoever volition assistance america recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday successful Lugano,” the X station said. “You tin bargain our awesome but you volition ne'er beryllium capable to bargain our souls. We are each successful this unneurotic and committed to spot the statue successful 21 places circular the world.”
The evident theft conscionable implicit a week aft Satoshi Gallery unveiled its 3rd Satoshi Nakamoto statue successful Tokyo, Japan.
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