NYSE Embraces Crypto with Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Installation

The New York Stock Exchange has just become the sixth home for Valentina Picozzi’s “disappearing” Satoshi Nakamoto statue — a massive contrast to just a few years ago, when crypto was seen as taboo on Wall Street.

The NYSE is considered a center of traditional financial institutions, and the inclusion of a Nakamoto statue marks it as “shared ground between emerging systems and established institutions,” the stock exchange said in an X post on Wednesday.

The statue was installed by Bitcoin company Twenty One Capital, which launched for…