A statue of Bitcoin’s anonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto has reached the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, December 11. Tether-backed fintech firm Twenty One Capital installed the much talked-about statue at the NYSE to mark the beginning of its trading this week.
The rather futuristic statue shows a hooded person sitting with a laptop inside the NYSE office. NYSE shared images from what appears to be its reception lobby on X. Explaining the symbolism, the world’s largest stock market said this “marks a shared ground between emerging systems and established institutions.” It also called Twenty One Capital the first “true” Bitcoin-native public company at the NYSE.
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Twenty One Capital places a statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, in NYSE. Its new home marks a shared ground between emerging systems and established institutions. From code to culture, the placement… pic.twitter.com/sTiNq3h5HY— NYSE 🏛 (@NYSE) December 10, 2025
Many from the crypto community hailed the development noting that Bitcoin, which started as an experiment, has made inroads into the offices of the Wall Street bulls like JPMorgan and Bank of America among others.
The statue, which reveals itself when looked at from some angles and seemingly disappears from others, is designed by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi. In the last two years, the statue has been installed in Switzerland’s Lugano, El Salvador’s El Zonte, Japan’s Tokyo, and Vietnam’s Hanoi to honor the ongoing crypto developments in these regions.
In 2021, a Satoshi statue was also unveiled in Budapest, Hungary.
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto minted the first Bitcoin in 2008 and now the asset has established itself as the most expensive crypto asset in the world with traditional finance giants adopting it in their treasuries. In 2011, Nakamoto announced a retirement from the crypto ecosystem and till date remains anonymous.