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Bitcoin Faucet Turns 15: Sculpture Near NYSE Celebrates Monumental Rise


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On June 12, 2010, the Core BTC Gavin Andresen’s famous Bitcoin faucet. At that time, the cryptocurrency was barely more than a year, and there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding its future.

Bitcoin faucet was one of the first projects to enhance its adoption. Gifted talented 5 BTC to every visitor, at a time when each BTC was estimated at about $ 1, trying to provide more people by reaching digital assets.

Since then, the cryptocurrency has made one of the largest gatherings in history that rises from less than dollars to more than $ 100,000. In addition, digital assets have been adopted by major institutions in the old financial world.

Technical installation celebrates Bitcoin

In this context, investors in the boxes converted sports artist Nelson Saiers by creating a unique statue to tighten the height of Bitcoin. As shown in the picture below, the artist placed a piece called “liquidity” near the New York Stock Exchange building (NYSE).

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'Liquidity' the Bitcoin Faucet sculpture honoring BTC's long journey into Wall Street. Image courtesy of Nelson Saiers

This piece, which is a white homogeneous mass covered with Bitcoin themes and code pieces with a black tap, not only shows this early project, but also how the cryptocurrency has reached Wall Street.

In an exclusive interview with the Bittin, the artist claims that the piece was strategically installed near the New York Stock Exchange to highlight the huge jump for Bitcoin, and also how the American Federal Reserve (Fed) and traditional institutions contributed to the rise of the cryptocurrency. Sayer told us:

It put a statue called “liquidity” near the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate this event. The choice of his position near the New York Stock Exchange was to celebrate its height from a symbol that had no little value 15 years ago to one of the assets with the total market ceiling that exceeds only a few shares.

Hanafi and “liquidity” address also indicates the actions of the Federal Reserve that pumps liquidity in the market, which benefited in my opinion from BTC.

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Bitcoin from the outside

Over the past decade, Saiers were devoted to creating and installing unique pieces to celebrate Bitcoin and condemn the American authorities. As Bitcoinist also covered 3 years ago, the artist called cheap federal reserves to the United States by installing an antique Gumbal Gumball in front of Wall Street Paul referring to the “cheap money” policies of the Foundation.

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BTC's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview

Moreover, Saiers also installed an inflatable Bitcoin mouse, one of its most famous pieces, on various occasions with a similar goal to convey the popular feeling of lack of confidence and lack of confidence in old institutions.

Regarding the latest article, Saier told us:

In many ways, BTC is the final financial strangers. It has been mocked by many prominent experts from the world -in -law, such as Warren Buffett and Jimmy Damon. But today he went from something that was distributed for free 15 years by Andresen to one of the assets exceeding the shares of the few market (…)

Cover a photo of the courtesy, Nelson Saier, the tradingView graph

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