Hermann Troger
3 min readAug 29, 2020

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Banksy and Satoshi Nakamoto creating and disrupting value — storing bitcoin with Cryptoart

Looking at the Work of Banksy and Satoshi there are loads of similarities. Commodification is a tricky thing for human society — converting money into commodities (economic goods, capital assets and economic units). Intangible Assets like Art or Digital Protocols used as a Medium of Account and Exchange like in Bitcoin ( fungible Token) or Art as an Un-fungible Token changes the Game. Commodity Money is information and for the users and masses, not abused from an Elite. Everybody is Banksy and Satoshi !

Starting with a Punk attitude , where anarchy as ideology is the bases to develop new art forms and cultural systems. For Banksy it was Graffiti, Hip-Hop Music, New Age Travelers as an influence for his statements — i guess it must have been the same for Satoshi in his development progressing and creating a Masterpiece. Banksy had to hide his identity in order to survive the establishment . Their way of criminalize new Ways in Society helped to hide the identity of those two geniuses . Criminal…

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