{"id":40326,"date":"2025-08-04T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40326"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:16:39","slug":"vandalism-against-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-sparks-protest-you-can-steal-our-symbol-but-you-will-never-be-able-to-steal-our-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40326","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism Against Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Sparks Protest: You Can Steal Our Symbol, But You Will Never Be Able To Steal Our Souls&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lugano&#8217;s landmark tribute to <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>&#8216;s (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) anonymous creator met a violent end this week after the <strong>Satoshi Nakamoto<\/strong> statue was found shattered and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/08\/46819166\/satoshi-nakamotos-statue-smashed-dumped-in-swiss-lake-absolute-disgrace-says-bitcoiner\">submerged in Lake Lugano.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The installation, located in Parco Ciani and crafted to symbolize Bitcoin&#8217;s decentralization ethos, had been torn from its base and discarded into the water over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>City officials <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/333368\/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-vandalized\">confirmed<\/a> the recovery of the fragmented artwork on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Italian artist and long-time Bitcoin supporter <strong>Valentina Picozzi<\/strong>, the piece stood as a faceless optical illusion, a visual metaphor for Satoshi&#8217;s mystery and the cryptographic roots of Bitcoin. <\/p>\n<p>The structure, made from stainless steel and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/46825980\/vandalism-against-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-sparks-protest-you-can-steal-our-symbol-but-you-w\" alt=\"Vandalism\" against satoshi nakamoto statue sparks protest: you can steal our symbol but will never be able to souls>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugano&#8217;s landmark tribute to Bitcoin&#8216;s (CRYPTO: BTC) anonymous creator met a violent end this week after the Satoshi Nakamoto statue was found shattered and submerged in Lake Lugano. What Happened: The installation, located in Parco Ciani and crafted to symbolize Bitcoin&#8217;s decentralization ethos, had been torn from its base and discarded into the water over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-40326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}