Anonymous Bitcoin founder commemorated in Budapest with bronze featureless statue

Anonymous Bitcoin founder commemorated in Budapest with bronze featureless statue

Members of a cryptocurrency community in Hungary unveiled a statue on Thursday honoring the anonymous founder of the digital currency. The life-sized bronze bust sits atop a stone plinth at Graphisoft business park in Budapest, engraved with the name "Satoshi Nakamoto," a pseudonym used by the unidentified developer of Bitcoin. "We think of Satoshi as the founding father of the whole cryptocurrency industry,"Andras Gyorfi, a Bitcoin journalist and head of the project, told the . "He created Bitcoin, he created the blockchain technology, he's the god of our market." The sculpture has no discernible features and is instead a mirrored surface that allows visitors to see their own reflections in the face of Nakamoto's, alluding to Bitcoin enthusiasts' long-held belief that " ," and Bitcoin belongs to everyone who uses it. The faceless bust is also dressed in a hoodie with the Bitcoin logo on its chest. to make the statue. It was funded with $10,000 in cryptocurrency from the community and announced at a Budapest Blockchain conference in May, according to the AP. Gyorfi told the news organization that he invited Nakamoto to the unveiling ceremony in the hopes of learning the creator's true identity, but it is unknown