A new statue of Satoshi Nakamoto premieres in Tokyo

By Hannah Pérez

It is the fourth monument in honor of the creator of Bitcoin who stands in a city worldwide. The other statues of Satoshi are in the cities of Budapest, the Zonte and Lugano.

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• A new statue of the creator of Bitcoin in Tokyo celebrates the motto “We are all Satoshi.”
• It is the third sculpture in honor of Satoshi Nakamoto by the Satoshigallery project.
• The penetrable kinetic art piece allows the viewer to become Satoshi, according to the angle that sees it.
• Satoshi’s identity is still a mieterio but his legacy is undeniable.

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Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic creator of Bitcoinhe has a new statue in his name in Tokyo, Japan.

The team of Satoshigallery This week premiered a new monument in honor of the face without a face behind the world’s first cryptocurrency, known under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Satoshi’s identity has remained in shadings since the launch of Bitcoin In 2009, becoming one of the great mysteries of the technological era. Over the years, the lack of responses about the people (s) behind this innovation has motivated multiple theories and speculation. Beyond these stories, one thing is clear about Nakamoto: his legacy is now undeniable.

The new statue in Tokyo seeks to capture both aspects, both the mystery and the legacy of the inventor of Bitcoin.

The sculpture represents a subject with a hood, sitting in an Indian position, with a computer resting on his legs and a peculiar design that makes his silhouette and volume vary depending on the angle in which he looks. Built in metal, the statue is a kinetic penetrable that seeks to honor the mysterious person behind the protocol Bitcoin.

“The statue itself wants to give the viewer this sense of disappearance, and the feeling that the inventor is maintained between the lines – as of today Satoshi exists in the Bitcoin Code lines, which allows humanity to have the first decentralized payment system“, Says a description on the website of Satoshigallery.

I Love Seeing The Interaction of Bitcoiners Around The World With Our Statue!

We are All Satoshi! https://t.co/brdlfevfhy

– Satoshigallery (@satoshigallery) April 25, 2025

Its translucent design invites visitors to get one with the statue, so that when you are placed behind the piece it seems that the spectators are Satoshi himself. “When the observer is placed behind the statue, it becomes Satoshi himself. Because “we are all Satoshi”“add the artistic team by the project.

Satoshigallery He has placed other similar pieces in the city of Lugano, Switzerland, and more recently in El Salvador, this being the third statue of Satoshi that opens the project worldwide. Earlier this month, the coastal city of El Zonte, El Salvador, also known as “Bitcoin Beach”, became the home of the second statue of Nakamoto.

The most recent was presented in an art gallery located in Tokyo, located in Shinjuku City.

Although the three are thousands of kilometers away, they have a unified message: recognize the impact of the creator of Bitcoin in the culture and history of humanity as a whole, as well as its current financial impact.

This last installation in Tokyo also joins a separate tribute in Budapest, Hungary, which also seeks to celebrate in a material piece the impact and importance of Satoshi in our current world.

Bitcoin (BTC), currently with a USD $ 1.8 billion market capitalization, is the largest cryptocurrency and one of the largest assets worldwide. Its price, which reached a historical maximum of more than USD $ 109,000 in January, is around USD $ 94,000 at the time of edition, according to data from Coinmarketcap.

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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