{"id":622844,"date":"2023-03-28T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/von-wong-describes-bitcoin-sculpture-rollercoaster\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:49:25","slug":"von-wong-describes-bitcoin-sculpture-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/von-wong-describes-bitcoin-sculpture-rollercoaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Von Wong Describes Bitcoin Sculpture \u201cRollercoaster\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content_box\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41169a86822e6585e2f87627f7d7ef3a?s=32&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"32\" width=\"32\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<p><span><span>By <a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/author\/mahu_bs\" title=\"Posts by Mark Hunter\" rel=\"author\">Mark Hunter<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>1 day ago<span>Mon Mar 27 2023 09:56:39<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Von-Wong-Describes-Bitcoin-Sculpture-Rollercoaster.png\" alt=\"Von-Wong-Describes-Bitcoin-Sculpture-Rollercoaster\" decoding=\"async\" title data-layzr=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Von-Wong-Describes-Bitcoin-Sculpture-Rollercoaster.png\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Reading Time: <\/span> <span>2<\/span> <span>minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Artist Von Wong has described the emotional \u201crollercoaster\u201d he experienced after his Skull of Satoshi statue was released to the world<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Wong was seemingly not expecting to the the touchstone for anger over Greenpeace\u2019s message by the Bitcoin community<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Greenpeace\u2019s aims seem to have backfired after the piece was adopted by the Bitcoin community<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Canadian artist Von Wong, who was commissioned by Greenpeace to make a physical representation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/crypto-guides\/bitcoin-btc\"><span>Bitcoin\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span> impact on the environment, has described the \u201crollercoaster\u201d of emotions he has experienced over the reaction to the piece. Bitcoiners have adopted the image as a \u201cbadass\u201d Bitcoin skull made of electronic waste, with the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/greenpeace-stunt-backfires-with-epic-bitcoin-skull-artwork\"><span> glowing-eyes Skull of Satoshi<\/span><\/a><span> replacing long devalued <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/nfts-a-beginners-guide-to-non-fungible-tokens\"><span>NFTs<\/span><\/a><span> as social media profile pictures. This has utterly undermined Greenpeace\u2019s efforts, and it seems that Wong has been caught in the middle of the argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Wong Aims to \u201cInspire and Create Change\u201d on Environmental Matters<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thevonwong\/status\/1639690663846375424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span>Wong took to Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> to say that it took him six months to formulate and create the Skull of Satoshi, saying that he \u201cspent 6 months pouring my heart and soul into building an amazing installation\u201d, but that the reaction last Thursday left him\u201dsad\u201d. Wong said that he has been \u201cdoing environmental art projects for yrs\u201d, using his talents to call out big corporations in the hope that his installations \u201cinspire and create change\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wong says he was \u201cstoked\u201d when Greenpeace contacted him and asked him to create something that represented Bitcoin\u2019s impact on the environment, although Wong says that piece was \u201cnever meant to be anti-Bitcoin\u201d. He didn\u2019t help himself, however, by releasing a video of the build in which he used spurious statistics to back up Greenpeace\u2019s claims over the environmental damage caused by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/an-introduction-to-bitcoin-mining\"><span>Bitcoin mining<\/span><\/a><span>. His intent, he said in the tweet thread, was as an \u201can optimistic hope that Bitcoin could shift away from the needless burning of fossil fuels without losing all the other features that make Bitcoin safe, secure, and decentralized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Wong Unprepared for Backlash<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>It seems that Wong wasn\u2019t prepared for the backlash he would receive, with the Canadian artist acting as the landing point for the tornado over the faceless organization of Greenpeace. He said that he spend the following days in discussions with interested parties on both sides and realized that there are initiatives in play to make Bitcoin mining more environmentally friendly, and ended the tweet thread with a challenge:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If Bitcoin wants to take down GP USA\u2019s campaign, tweeting won\u2019t make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>But transitioning BTC mining from coal and making initiatives like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vespene_Energy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vespene_energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoClimAcc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CryptoClimAcc<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SustainableBTC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sustainablebtc<\/a> irresistible and mainstream might. \/11<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Von Wong (@thevonwong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thevonwong\/status\/1639692216049311744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Wong added that he loved the fact that the Bitcoin crowd had taken on the Skull of Satoshi as a mascot rather than a visual criticism, and the fact that it was now \u201ccompletely out of my control.\u201d He added that he wasn\u2019t accepting tips from the Bitcoin community due to the message it would send out, which, for an artist, must have been a hard thing to do indeed, so fair play to Wong for standing by his principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/von-wong-describes-bitcoin-sculpture-rollercoaster?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=von-wong-describes-bitcoin-sculpture-rollercoaster\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Mark Hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Hunter1 day agoMon Mar 27 2023 09:56:39 Reading Time: 2 minutes Artist Von Wong has described the emotional \u201crollercoaster\u201d he experienced after his Skull of Satoshi statue was released to the world Wong was seemingly not expecting to the the touchstone for anger over Greenpeace\u2019s message by the Bitcoin community Greenpeace\u2019s aims seem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4041,26629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin","category-describes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}