{"id":41763,"date":"2021-05-03T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41763"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:14:28","slug":"bitcoin-symbol-projected-onto-bank-of-england-and-uk-parliament-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-symbol-projected-onto-bank-of-england-and-uk-parliament-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin symbol projected onto Bank of England and UK Parliament buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown person projected the phrase &#8216;Bitcoin fixes this&#8217; along with the symbol of the first cryptocurrency on the walls of the Bank of England and the UK Parliament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OMG they did it on Parliament too <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jijp6RutXj\">pic.twitter.com\/jijp6RutXj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dominic Frisby (@DominicFrisby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominicFrisby\/status\/1388452882954035201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 30 April, the message bearing the artist&#8217;s signature appeared beneath Big Ben and on the fa\u00e7ade of the Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>The projection photograph was already minted as an NFT and listed on the marketplace Rarible. As of this writing, the price had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>In one version, the act by an unknown Bitcoin supporter may be linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-england-advertises-vacancies-for-cbdc-research-group\">vacancies posted by the Bank of England<\/a> for studying CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the Bank of England and His Majesty&#8217;s Treasury began a joint study of digital currency. Officials noted that the launch was not yet finally decided, and that, if launched, a CBDC would merely supplement cash.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown person projected the phrase &#8216;Bitcoin fixes this&#8217; along with the symbol of the first cryptocurrency on the walls of the Bank of England and the UK Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Unknown Bitcoin supporter projects 'Bitcoin fixes this' on Bank of England and UK Parliament walls.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,809,1213,810],"class_list":["post-41763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-central-banks","tag-nft","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Unknown Bitcoin supporter projects 'Bitcoin fixes this' on Bank of England and UK Parliament walls.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41765,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763\/revisions\/41765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}