The statue in Lugano Switzerland of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creater of Bitcoin, was vandalized and stolen on August 2, 2025.
Satoshigallery offered a 0.1 bitcoin reward to help recover the statue on X, stating, “You can steal our symbol but you will never be able to steal our souls.”
Where is Satoshi?
— Satoshigallery (@satoshigallery) August 3, 2025
We are offering 0.1 btc to whoever will help us recovering the Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto that was stolen yesterday in Lugano.
You can steal our symbol but you will never be able to steal our souls.
Thank you all for the nice messages.
We are all in this… https://t.co/cAGCqg4CuP pic.twitter.com/iGrBOdVYhe
The statue of Satoshi was subsequently discovered in a nearby lake where the Municipality of Lugano recovered the statue.
We want to thank the Municipality of Lugano @luganomycity for helping us to recover the statue that was thrown into the lake.
— Satoshigallery (@satoshigallery) August 3, 2025
🙏🏻 https://t.co/UyKhyBvt1m pic.twitter.com/qaHFWXIHRs