{"id":40385,"date":"2025-08-04T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40385"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:46:45","slug":"missing-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-is-recovered-in-lugano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40385","title":{"rendered":"Missing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Is Recovered in Lugano"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The famous Satoshi Nakamoto statue, an ingenious line-of-sight illusion envisioned by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi, that was reported missing on Sunday was recovered from a nearby lake<\/a>, Satoshigallery, the artistic project run by Picozzi, said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

The gallery reported the statue missing on Aug. 3 with a photo showing only empty ground where the layers of disappearing stripes that fade into code had stood since late 2024. The statue representing the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin was unveiled on Oct.\u202f25,\u202f2024 at Plan\u202fB\u2019s Bitcoin forum as Swiss\u2011Tether and Lugano raced to brand the city a global bitcoin (BTC) hub.<\/p>\n

The theft was first reported by X user @Grittoshi<\/a>, who suspected it had been thrown in a lake beside the sculpture. Satoshigallery offered a reward of 0.1\u202fBTC to anyone who could help find the statue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are offering 0.1 btc to whoever will help us recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday in Lugano,\u201d the X post said. \u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grittoshi had suggested<\/a> the theft was an act of vandalism resulting from celebrations related to Swiss National day, which falls on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are cameras everywhere in the city so i assume, they just threw it inside the lake beside, before going home. No way, they could have carried it unnoticed in the city.\u201d Grittoshi wrote shortly before the statue was indeed found in the lake.<\/p>\n

What damage the statue has taken hasn\u2019t yet been determined. <\/p>\n

Picozzi shared images on social media of the statue being recovered, and suggested Kintsugi-style repairs may be in order. Kintsugi<\/a> is the Japanese art of repairing broken items with specific coating mixed with powered precious metals such as gold, silver or platinum.<\/p>\n

A petition<\/a> asking the city of Lugano for \u201clogistical and security support\u201d to restore the statue has been launched. Picozzi has offered to do things at her own expense, the petition said.<\/p>\n

The theft occurred just over a week after Satoshi Gallery unveiled its third Satoshi Nakamoto statue<\/a> in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The famous Satoshi Nakamoto statue, an ingenious line-of-sight illusion envisioned by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi, that was reported missing on Sunday was recovered from a nearby lake, Satoshigallery, the artistic project run by Picozzi, said in a post on X. The gallery reported the statue missing on Aug. 3 with a photo showing only empty […]<\/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-40385","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\/40385","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=40385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}