The fifth statue of Satoshi Nakamoto goes up in Vietnam

Vietnam has joined the list of nations honoring Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, with the unveiling of a statue in Hanoi ￰0￱ local news outlets, the inauguration took place on Tuesday during a ceremony of the country’s first installation of the ￰1￱ is the fifth nation to host a tribute to Nakamoto after Hungary, Spain, Japan, and the United ￰2￱ unveils first Satoshi Nakamoto statue, world’s fifth The Vietnam Blockchain and Digital Asset Association (VBA) confirmed that the event was staged within the framework of the Blockchain Gallery, a cultural and technological exhibition ￰3￱ dubbed the gallery Vietnam’s first public space dedicated to blockchain technology and digital assets, designed to connect art, innovation, and community ￰4￱ ceremony came against the backdrop of the Satoshi Vietnam Foundation’s launch, a non-profit inspired by the global ￰5￱ ￰6￱ to VBA, the foundation will popularize blockchain technology among young people, support technology startups, and promote social and environmental projects in tandem with sustainable development goals.

Nguyễn Vân Hiền, Vice President and General Secretary of VBA, led the initiative to bring the statue to ￰7￱ at the ceremony, she said the work symbolizes decentralized culture and the Southeast Asian country’s innovation ￰8￱ Hanoi statue is a distinctive version titled the “vanishing” Satoshi, created by Italian artist Valentina ￰9￱ piece has a “disappearing effect” when viewed from different angles, meant to tell the story of Nakamoto’s sudden withdrawal from public life after laying the foundations of Bitcoin and passing its control to a global ￰10￱ spent 21 months designing and refining the piece to convey the spirit of decentralization and anonymity central to Bitcoin’s origins.

“It is a work that embodies disappearance, a reminder that Bitcoin was left to the people,” VBA officials ￰11￱ new figurine adds to the lineage of Satoshi statues around the ￰12￱ first and most known statue is the faceless bronze version titled We are all Satoshi , erected in Budapest in ￰13￱ was designed by Hungarian sculptors Réka Gergely and Tamás Gilly, who asserted that the statue represents the face of visitors who stand before it, sending the message that anyone can embody Nakamoto’s ￰14￱ charges on with blockchain adoption VBA leaders said the project does more than honor Nakamoto because it is also meant to help integrate blockchain into Vietnamese ￰15￱ reports estimate that Vietnam is home to about 17 million digital asset holders, with crypto transactions valued at roughly $105 ￰16￱ of the country’s major financial institutions, including SSI Securities, Techcom Securities (TCBS), and the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), are reportedly in talks with regulators to launch subdivisions dedicated to ￰17￱ are also expected to authorize the creation of around five licensed digital asset exchanges that will be linked with international platforms to support approximately 50 tokenized assets.

“Blockchain Gallery proves that blockchain is not just technology but also culture, shaping values in real life,” Hiền ￰18￱ supported her sentiment, adding that Nakamoto’s story continues to inspire blockchain communities ￰19￱ bringing the statue to Hanoi, he also linked the unveiling to Resolution 57, a directive issued by Vietnam’s Politburo to encourage innovation and push national digital transformation forward. “This is a concrete step in aligning cultural projects with state policy,” he ￰20￱ July, Trung revealed on his personal page that the work would be brought to Vietnam at a value of one ￰21￱ had now surpassed $120,000, making the statue worth approximately 3.1 billion Vietnamese ￰22￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰23￱ in?

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