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Home | World | Statue Honoring Mysterious Bitcoin Founder Unveiled

Statue honoring mysterious Bitcoin founder unveiled

Bitcoin was recently adopted as legal currency in El Salvador

By AP
Updated On - 07:00 PM, Fri - 17 September 21
Statue honoring mysterious Bitcoin founder unveiled
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Budapest: An imposing bronze statue was unveiled in Hungary’s capital which its creators say is the first in the world to pay homage to the anonymous creator of the Bitcoin digital currency.

Erected in a business park near the Danube River in Budapest, the bust sits atop a stone plinth engraved with the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the mysterious developer of Bitcoin whose true identity is unknown.

“We think of Satoshi as the founding father of the whole cryptocurrency industry,” said Andras Gyorfi, a Bitcoin journalist and the initiator of the project. “He created Bitcoin, he created the blockchain technology, he’s the god of our market.”


The featureless face of the bust, wrapped in a bronze hoodie emblazoned with the Bitcoin logo, is heavily polished to make it reflective like a mirror in which viewers can see themselves.

Its creators, sculptors Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, sought to portray a human form while staying true to the anonymity of Nakamoto.

“I hope that through the language of sculpture, I have managed to convey the basic idea of Bitcoin, that it belongs to everyone and no one at the same time,” said Tamas Gilly. Bitcoin was created in 2008 to circumvent traditional financial institutions by developing secure technology for peer-to-peer online transactions without using intermediaries like banks.


Its founding white paper was authored by Nakamoto, a pseudonym which could refer to a person or group of people of unknown gender, age or national origin.
The organisers of the statue project invited Nakamoto in the hopes of finally learning the true identity of the Bitcoin inventor.


But, no one came forward to claim responsibility for developing the cryptocurrency.

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