Overview

• Parco Ciani Park’s life-sized sight-line illusion of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto vanished overnight during Swiss National Day festivities before being dumped in an adjacent lake.
• Local authorities retrieved the fractured stainless steel and corten sculpture from Lake Lugano and transported it to a secure facility for examination.
• Satoshigallery has maintained its 0.1 BTC bounty for information leading to the statue’s recovery and encouraged public assistance.
• Valentina Picozzi’s disappearing-stripes design embodies Nakamoto’s anonymity by vanishing from one perspective and emerging from another.
• The art collective reaffirmed its drive to install 21 identical Satoshi sculptures worldwide in homage to Bitcoin’s fixed supply and decentralization.