Second Vandalism of Satoshi's Statue in a Year!

Back in August last year, some drunk guy celebrating Swiss National Day (August 1) decided to take a mini angle grinder and wreck the statue, throwing the pieces into the Lugano lake. The local workers later fixed it up in a kintsugi style, which actually made it look cooler. Now, on April 19th, the statue got hit again by some unknown vandal. It hasn't even been a year since the last incident. The official page for the statue, satoshigallery, shared the news today, and while the community is upset about the damage, they believe it doesn't impact Bitcoin's journey at all. They even said, "you can break the steel, but not its meaning." Right now, there's no word from the police on who did this, and it's really puzzling why someone would target a peaceful statue of such an influential figure.

Hate? Frustration?It's not the first time people are going to show their hatred towards Bitcoin. A technology that was raised without the involvement of any government and today is sitting amongst one of the greatest ever created by man. Is there any other like Bitcoin? I don't think so. The status is just a representation of the great Bitcoin father , "Satoshi" and it doesn't in anyway remove or add anything to what he has built. They can destroy it a thousand times over, but Bitcoin would rise to see them fail on their 10million attempts to destroy it.

Destroying the statue is something I would imagine somebody would do in anger after they lost their Bitcoin because they were trading Shit Coins or because they did not know how to keep it secure enough.  They would need a really low activity in their brain to think this could do any damage to Bitcoin itself.

Without having to know this is related to crypto,  this is a masterpiece !! Why would anybody  vandalize such a nice piece of art ?? Anti cryptocurrency people maybe , or maybe someone that lost a crypto investment and they blame having come in contact with this technology 🤔 Anyway people do crazy sh*t for fame and maybe this could be one of those..maybe someone made a bet for them to do this..the possibilities are endless..Just hope one day they burst the vandals..

An fence should be built around the statue to prevent future vandalizations because if no action is taken, more people will see it as a norm and continue. In addition to my suggestion about the fence, I suggest that a warning should be place around it as well. So no matter what the intention of the person whether hate, frustration, or they want to pass a message, there will be deterred.

Most people will not understand what "peaceful decentralized" means.  When the economy is bad, or an individual has lost all of their funds in a crypto scam, there is an impulse to attack the symbol.  If someone is angry with a system they do not understand, or they have been hurt by that system, they may express their anger by vandalizing a statue. Also, some people tend to vandalize what they do not understand or they may simply enjoy destroying things.  Thats why they are called vandals.

I have few ideas. Just because we live in a bubble and see the positive sides of bitcoin, there's way of more hatred then love around the world against the whole concept. Starting from the amount of energy it takes to controversial celebrities it empowers. Also, art gets vandalized all the time for many reasons, and some of them don't need any logical motivation. But hating what something represents or how it looks does the trick. Or it might be about getting reaction as it got you talking. Random person having a bad day is all it needs. At least this is a statue getting attacked and not a person.

They have nothing important thing to do than ruining other's things. But even if they destroyed it on the surface, they can't change what Satoshi had created for the financial market. And up until now, btc is doing great and still the top cryptocurrency despite of the creation of thousands of alts trying to surpass bitcoin's usage or popularity.

people probably just see it as a statue of Bitcoin and since it made so many people very rich there of course will always be lots of hate. in their eyes it's no different than a statue to, say, Nvidia stock.

I agree with some of the existing posts because it is possible that apart from anti-crypto then certainly those who are frustrated with the situation they have in crypto because of their own mistakes and carelessness so they want to find an alternative to vent their anger. This is unlikely to be done just for fun especially seeing from the existing work it is clear that it is something very good and of course for ordinary people it would not be possible to destroy such good art. If this possibility is done only as a form of expression of anger because it cannot develop in crypto or bitcoin, it is like a fool even though they know their own mistakes but are trying to find justification by assuming it is the fault of bitcoin. That seems like a selfish act to me.

If they see it and know it's just a status, why transfer their hate and anger to it? While not sending it somewhere else, if they have somehow lost their money due to a bad decision or recklessness, they should accept their mistake and move on, work on themselves, and stop looking for where to transfer aggression.

In reality, we can't say if Satoshi is a single individual or group of persons because the name remains a pseudonymity to the Bitcoin ecosystem and world at large. What matters is the idea that is functional and efficient in its own way with its mathematical schematics being adequate enough to summount the hurdles so far. I really don't see this as a serious issue of consequence because it doesn't contribute to the volatilities and price movement of Bitcoin, nor does it cause investors to not invest in Bitcoin. Instead in a way, such a news would create more adoption use case and awareness to those who know nothing about it but have become curious as to why a second vandalism would occur.

Having bitcoin or Satoshi statue itself is not even a great way to honor the great inventor. The best honor will be propagating this technology such that others also get to know about this great technology. How many of the celebrity statues do we have today that people even follow up their way of live or what brought them up to fame. I think it’s not surprising that Satoshi statue was abused because the number of hate that he has incurred most especially from owners or controllers of traditional monetary systems I wasn’t expecting the statue to be even allowed to be erected in the first place. People do despicable things at times of lost or when they are down. That’s why you see some people even smashing their devices when something goes wrong same devices they spend to buy. But the real problem here is they hate the person though (Satoshi) and nothing like losses

Come on.  This sounds really silly.  So we are all supposed to never do any thing to honor Satoshi or Bitcoin other than propagating the technology?  Do you expect us all to become some sort of 'Satoshi's Witnesses'?  If there is one way to never make Bitcoin ever grow, being extremely intrusive, insistent and increasingly annoying is one way to do it. This just made me laugh.  Do you seriously believe a 'controller of traditional monetary systems' went to the statue with tools to 'abuse' it?

Personally i wouldn’t stop anyone from building statues for Satoshi but for me spreading the use of bitcoin actually keeps the remembrance of Satoshi than some entity around the world. As long as bitcoin is been used then Satoshi legacy and pedigree is definitely know to everyone but i am definitely not against statues. Common mate, I didn’t put it that way, all I was saying is there is definitely reasons for the statue to be abused worst or least of it, it could be from haters.

The person that vandalized the Satoshi statue can either be a friend of Satoshi or an enemy. I mean a friend of Satoshi to be someone that is in support of bitcoin. The person can be a friend because doing the vandalism will make people talk about bitcoin, Satoshi and the Satoshi statue, to make more people know about bitcoin, Satoshi and the existence of the status. But the person can either be an enemy. Regardless, no one can destroy bitcoin.

I do not know if building a statue is the way I would do it, but it is definitely a good conversation starter that may at the end of the day get more people interested in Bitcoin.  Statues, signs on TV, events, whatever it is, they all help achieve particularly what you are hoping for and sometimes in an even entertaining way.

Just like the post said, the vandalization doesn't pose any threat to Bitcoin and everything it has become, but there is a need for the authorities to handle the issue, not because something relating to Bitcoin was vandalized, but because someone actually tampered with a property that isn't theirs. A lot of people these days have so many weird reasons for doing inappropriate things, and I guess this particular case isn't different. Bitcoin still remains what it is, and the legacy of Satoshi isn't defined be a statue either.

What's not clear here? Sometimes people act worse than animals. Animals kill to survive; people kill and break for no reason. Some bastards don't have any ideals. There is no need to look for the reason for what happened and why in the head of the person who decided to break the statue. This scoundrel might not even know who he was breaking the statue of, but his excited and small brain gave him the signal to destroy. I want to believe that the criminal will be caught and punished accordingly.

That’s why it’s good to set an example with anyone who does something bad so that others will learn from it and know that if they engage in similar act, that they will be punished and face same consequences. Had it been that the person who destroyed the first one was caught and made to face certain punishment publicly, I don’t think the next man would want to do the same thing in less than a year because what happened to the last person would still be fresh in their memory. Probably the person that destroyed the first one was never caught and nothing was done to the person, that’s what gave this person mind to go vandalized the statue this time around. Before rebuilding it the second time the person responsible should be found and prosecuted publicly so others won’t think of vandalizing the image again in the future.