Key Takeaways
- A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto was stolen in Lugano, Switzerland, prompting a reward provide.
- The statue was later discovered damaged in a close-by lake.
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A life-sized statue of Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, disappeared from Parco Ciani Park in Lugano, as reported by X consumer Gritto this morning.
Hey @paoloardoino the place has Satoshi’s statue gone?! pic.twitter.com/fqxY3H7sT9
— Gritto (@Grittoshi) August 2, 2025
Gritto, who visited the park and captured photographs, stated the statue was nonetheless in place on the night time of August 1st. On the time, the realm was bustling with exercise because of Swiss Nationwide Day festivities, and close by cafés stuffed with celebrants.
He theorized {that a} group of partygoers, intoxicated and passing by way of after the celebrations, might need determined to “have enjoyable” with the statue on their method dwelling. The statue’s disappearance was believed to have occurred someday that night time.
Gritto’s photographs present a portion of the statue nonetheless hooked up to the bottom and the metallic nameplate engraved with “Satoshi Nakamoto,” together with the artist’s title, Valentina Picozzi.
“There are cameras in all places within the metropolis so i assume, they only threw it contained in the lake beside, earlier than going dwelling,” Gritto advised. “No method, they might have carried it unnoticed within the metropolis. So my opinion: it’s within the lake, simply beside its earlier location.”
Statue of Bitcoin creator found damaged in a close-by lake
After the theft surfaced, Picozzi’s Satoshigallery introduced a 0.1 BTC reward for leads on the statue’s restoration. The workforce additionally confirmed it could proceed with plans to put in an identical statues in 21 areas worldwide.
The place is Satoshi?
We’re providing 0.1 btc to whoever will assist us recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday in Lugano.
You may steal our image however you’ll by no means have the ability to steal our souls.
Thanks all for the great messages.
We’re all on this… https://t.co/cAGCqg4CuP pic.twitter.com/iGrBOdVYhe
— Satoshigallery (@satoshigallery) August 3, 2025
A lot of customers on X claimed the statue was recovered from a close-by lake, broken and incomplete.
The Satoshi statue was recovered in close by Lake Lugano https://t.co/6ysO1UZi0w pic.twitter.com/l6CZ62rS5S
— k3ycrypto (@k3ycrypto) August 3, 2025
Somebody (paper hand) final night time stole and broke the Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano. Later discovered within the lake near the place. 💥
However no worries, the Lugano Plan B neighborhood is already investigating. 🇨🇭💊
Lugano is nicely often known as a protected and pleasant place, besides some silly… pic.twitter.com/qf8FSeaLJB
— Aron Clementi 🚀 (ElysiumLab) (@Aron_Clem) August 3, 2025
Statue was vandalised and thrown within the lake. Authorities at the moment are recovering it and can convey it to a protected place….simply unhappy to see how folks have enjoyable nowadays hope they’ll get caught and given the punishment they deserve. pic.twitter.com/SXe9Rup714
— Namaskaram_Luca 🙏🏽 (@MilanRealTV) August 3, 2025
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