What’s the big deal? 🤔
- The Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano, created by artist Valentina Picozzi, has vanished into thin air! 🔮
- The statue, unveiled in 2024, was part of Lugano’s effort to become a global Bitcoin hub. Because, you know, nothing says “global Bitcoin hub” like a stolen statue 😂.
- Satoshigallery is offering a reward of 0.1 BTC for information leading to the statue’s recovery. That’s like, a whole lot of money for a statue… or a really bad joke 🤣.
Lugano residents woke up today to find that the famous Satoshi Nakamoto statue, an ingenious sight-line illusion envisioned by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi, was gone. Poof! 🔮
The layers of disappearing stripes were only empty ground where the illusion of Satoshi, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, fading into code stood since late 2024. It was unveiled on October 25, 2024, at Plan B’s Bitcoin forum, as Swiss-Tether and Lugano raced to brand the city a global Bitcoin hub. Because, you know, Bitcoin needs a physical presence… or a statue… or something 🤷♂️.
The theft was first reported by X user @Grittoshi, who suspected it had been thrown in a lake beside the sculpture. Because, you know, that’s exactly what you do with a statue you steal – you throw it in a lake 🌊.
On X, Satoshigallery, the artistic project run by Picozzi, offered a reward of 0.1 BTC to anyone that could help find the statue. “We are offering 0.1 btc to whoever will help us recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday in Lugano,” the X post said. “You can steal our symbol but you will never be able to steal our souls. We are all in this together and committed to place the statue in 21 places round the world.” Yeah, because that’s exactly what you do when someone steals your statue – you make a joke about it 😂.
Where is Satoshi?
We are offering 0.1 btc to whoever will help us recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday in Lugano.
You can steal our symbol but you will never be able to steal our souls.
Thank you all for the nice messages.
We are all in this…
— Satoshigallery (@satoshigallery) August 3, 2025
The apparent theft just over a week after Satoshi Gallery unveiled its third Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Tokyo, Japan. I guess the thief was just trying to get in on the action 🎉.
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2025-08-03 12:47