When Bitcoiners ask me about the sign, I tell them, “You’d have done the same in my seat.” Yes, only I attended the hearing, drew the sign, and flashed it for the camera. However, it was the network spirit which seized the image and fabricated the memes. The full poetry of the stunt was far beyond my devising, therefore, my attitude can only be one of post-authorship. Bitcoin was massively rupturing into the halls of institutional finance in 2017. Any Bitcoiner worth their sats would have told you so. It’s good to finally liberate this number from my sock drawer and offer it back to the Bitcoin public. The message was subversive then, but now merely obvious: Bitcoin is flowing. Control is dead.

Auction Start: Thursday, April 18, 12 pm ET (16:00 UTC)

Auction End: Wednesday, April 24, 7 pm ET (23:00 UTC)

Auction link: https://scarce.city/auctions/buy-bitcoin

Pez dispensers have been discussed in this forum more than a decade ago:

eBay started off as a way for the guy's wife to collect Pez dispensers, and look at what a clusterfuck THAT has turned into.

We've now come full circle with this limited edition Bitcoin Pez Dispenser for sale on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145654566941





There are only 30,000 units made.

Here are the details of this collectible:

This Limited Edition Bitcoin PEZ is one of a single production run of 30,000 dispensers. This exclusive dispenser is limited in distribution channels and will not be found in retail stores like ordinary PEZ. The puck dispenser has the Bitcoin cryptocurrency logo on it and comes on a matching orange stem. The dispenser comes on a Bitcoin card marked with the limited edition emblem from PEZ Candy. The back of the card has the Bitcoin logo and says "Eat Candy. Buy Bitcoin." This dispenser will be popular among PEZ collectors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The Bitcoin PEZ dispenser comes on a card with three packs of orange PEZ candy.

You don't need to HODL this PEZ Dispenser like you would your actual Bitcoin...or do you?


• Limited Edition: Only 30,000 Dispensers Made

• Bitcoin Themed PEZ Candy Dispenser

• A Must-have for any Bitcoin or Crypto enthusiast

• Includes Three Candy Refills.

 
Manufactured by PEZ Candy, Inc. in the United States of America.

If you don't like eBay for some reason, you can gran one from Walmart as well:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bitcoin-PEZ-Dispenser-with-Candy-LIMITED-EDITION/1915338112

The other day I've found this interesting blog about someone in Europe planning to retire early by converting a fixed amount of their monthly salary into Bitcoin.

He started doing this in the bull market of 2017 and keeps doing it every month, no excuses. A specific amount, 500 euros, is always converted into Bitcoin and stored away in cold storage.

This is how his strategy looks like:



As you can see, the BTC stack in orange always keeps going up, making it a personal ATH for him every time.

In a black dashed line is the actual total invested in fiat, which simply increases by 500 euro every month.

And in green you can see the value in fiat(euro) of his current amount of Bitcoin. This one of course varies a lot depending on the current price of Bitcoin.

You can clearly see that it has been an incredibly great savings strategy so far, obtaining a lot more value than simply saving in fiat.

I'll leave you guys with the url of the blog: https://er-bybitcoin.com

In the end, perseverance seems to be the key here. He's not putting an incredible amount of money down every month, but still he has managed to obtain a lot of Bitcoin, 4.47 BTC from his last update.

Have you tried something similar?, maybe now thinking about doing it?, I think it's a great idea.

A few years ago, entomologist Dr Dan Bickel discovered a new species of fly while working at the Australian Museum.

This museum gives the ability to name new species to their members, who have to bid to win the naming rights. Mark Carnegie and Sergei Sergienko did just that, interestingly, using Bitcoin.

For the first time in the AM’s history, the naming rights of the fly was paid using Bitcoin by Carnegie and Sergienko, who are working with cultural institutions to ensure they aren’t left behind as the digital world evolves.

“Whether we like it or not, Bitcoin is here to stay. It has made, and is yet to make, great changes to our world. I’m proud to have been involved in naming this recently discovered species after Bitcoin, and I thank the Australian Museum for the opportunity,”

I find it fascinating that traditional institutions like the Australian Museum are embracing Bitcoin.

“We have the capability to reposition cultural institutions at the forefront of the digital revolution, and are dedicated to ensuring Australia doesn’t get left behind through the ongoing disruption,”

So, there you have it, we now officially have a Bitcoin fly:

Hey guys, just found this and thought some of you might enjoy it.

It's a standard set of cards printed with information about Bitcoin:





This is a second edition, with 100 decks printed.

You can read more about this item at Stacker News:

https://stacker.news/items/143922

“Remittances are a broken system and Strike delivers an incredibly empowering experience for people to send money around the world in nearly an instant,”

Strike is helping millions of people by simply reducing the cost of moving money around the world. They do that by using Bitcoin as the money transport layer, and then once the money is in the target country, they simply buy whatever fiat they use there and deposit it in the person's bank account.

Strike's "Send Globally" feature, which started a few months ago, allows you to send fiat from the US to an increasing number of countries:

Strike launched Send Globally in December 2022 starting with transfers from the U.S. to Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. The user experience and ability to bridge communities in the U.S. and Africa in partnership with Bitnob have been transformational and the opportunities for Strike in these and other markets are developing fast.

Recently, Strike partnered with Pouch.ph in order to add The Philippines to that list:

All verified US Strike users can now use the Send Globally feature to send to recipients in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and the Philippines, where funds can be received as local currency. Strike doesn’t operate in those countries, but engages with third-party partners to facilitate Send Globally transactions.

Of course it would be better if they simply use Bitcoin natively, but we're not there yet. This is the beginning of a huge transformation worldwide, happening in countries that rely on remittances first, then the rest.

This is just the beginning, foreign exchange fees will be a thing of the past next when you could simply move around money with Bitcoin all around the world. And then, you won't even need to convert Bitcoin anyway.

Here I highlight the earliest reports of bitcoin in any type of publicly accessible media, either a tech site, software publishing site, mainstream sites, news, etc. I think the PC World article at the end of 2010 seems to be already mainstream, so anything after that is not really that relevant to this post. I'm mostly interested in what happened before that. If you happen to know of any article that was written and published in 2009 or early 2010, please mention it here.

Here's what I've found so far:

The first publicly known announcement of Bitcoin appeared in the metzdowd cryptography mailing list on October 2008[1]. At this time bitcoin is mostly known to people involved in cryptography.

On January 8th 2009 the first public release of bitcoin software is done at sourceforge[2], a website where people can host and download open source software. This means that now people involved in software development or software enthusiasts in general might also know about bitcoin.

On January 11th 2009, Hal Finney famously twitted "Running bitcoin"[3]. Now potentially anyone with a twitter account might have gotten some kind of exposure to the concept of bitcoin, and might be able to obtain more information about it through the sourceforge forum or source code.

On March 2009 a bitcoin entry appears on wikipedia[4], allowing the general population to know more about what bitcoin is.

On November 2009 bitcointalk forum is created[5]. This means that anyone in the world now might end up knowing about bitcoin by simply doing a web search about related topics that are covered in this forum.

On July 2010 bitcoin is discussed in slashdot[6], a website for tech news.

On December 2010, PC World wrote an article about a potential new virtual currency called Bitcoin[7]. This is probably the most mainstream reference to Bitcoin at the time.

I think I'm missing at least a couple of relevant articles that might have appeared around 2009 at places like slashdot, hackernews, or similar. Anyone here has any links from that time?

[1]: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html
[2]: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/014994.html
[3]: https://nitter.it/halfin/status/1110302988
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin&oldid=275832581
[5]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28
[6]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03
[7]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/499375/could_wikileaks_scandal_lead_to_new_virtual_currency.html

Strike partnered with Bitnob, an African Bitcoin company to allow US customers to send USD to Africa with almost no fees.

This is possible because the transfer of value is done through the lightning network, so the transfer is done almost immediately and with almost no fees.

People can still continue to use their local fiat currencies, but the actual transfer is done through the lightning network in this case.

“Payments are instantly converted into naira, cedi, or shillings, and deposited directly into a recipient’s bank, mobile money, or Bitnob account.”

The company charges a small fee for the conversion of USD->Bitcoin->Local fiat in Africa, but it's nowhere near the huge fees traditional banks charge for international money transfers.

We can now save people sending money back home to Africa billions of USD in transfer fees.”

Remittances are probably one of the biggest reason for people to use Bitcoin around the world, and Strike is using this to create a service around it. They are also planning to expand to other African countries.

source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/strike-launches-instant-african-remittances

I found this cool art from cryptograffiti, and wanted to share here:









It looks great, and it actually mines Bitcoin.

The front of this piece was created from dead S9 hashboards and various repurposed smining parts.

On the back is an underclocked S9 hashboard (~4TH/~300W) w/ Braiins OS+ firmware mining to Slushpool.

The front-facing exhaust fan powers on bringing the work to life while it works to pay for itself.

At the end of this month will be 10 years that I've been creating Bitcoin art. Thanks for looking!

Here's an interesting project I found that makes it easy to accept bitcoin through lightning on any ESP32 microcontroller.

https://github.com/lnbits/bitcoinSwitch

That means you can accept sats with any kind of device:



The setup is pretty simple:



"ToTheMoon" is of course the default password  

I think some people here would be interested in playing around with something like this, so wanted to share.

Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeoIwTjv3YM

[Step 1: Install and run Bitcoin Core]

Following my previous guide about how to solo mine testnet bitcoins with an ASIC and cgminer I'm now presenting a guide on how to do the same but without the need of an ASIC. That means that you'll be able to mine testnet bitcoins with any computer that has a CPU and/or a GPU.

This should work on pretty much any laptop or desktop, even those with the new M1 chips from Apple. Of course the faster the CPU/GPU, the better chances you'll have to hit some blocks.

You might be wondering how is this even possible. The answer is that the difficulty in testnet3 reverts to 1 after 20 minutes have passed with no one finding a block. A difficulty of 1 is so low that any CPU or GPU is capable of hitting a block. Note that this was the difficulty of Bitcoin in the beginning(2009). More details about this can be read here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18554/how-can-i-find-the-real-difficulty-on-testnet

OK, so let's make it happen. First, you need to setup Bitcoin Core in the same way as with the other guide. Here's a copy of it for simplicity:

Step 1: Install and run Bitcoin Core

We're going to use the folder ~/bitcoin_testnet to save everything so that it's easy to remove once you're done and to keep things simple. You can of course use a different path if you want.

Inside ~/bitcoin_testnet create a folder called data:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/bitcoin_testnet/data

Download the Bitcoin Core for your platform into ~/bitcoin_testnet/ and extract it there.

Now let's prepare the configuration file. Create a text file named bitcoin_testnet.conf in ~/bitcoin_testnet/ and put these content in it:

Code:

testnet=1
txindex=1
server=1
[test]
rpcport=5000
rpcallowip=YOUR_MINER_IP
rpcuser=YOUR_RPC_USER
rpcpassword=YOUR_RPC_PASSWORD
rpcbind=0.0.0.0

The thing that you need to understand here is that you're setting up the Bitcoin node to run in testnet, and you're defining an RPC port(5000 in this case, can be anything), user and password, and whitelisting a specific IP to connect to your node(YOUR_MINER_IP). You'll need these details and your Bitcoin node IP later when connecting from bfgminer.

You can now start running your Bitcoin node by doing the following(make sure to change user to your actual user):

Code:

/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin-23.0/bin/bitcoind -conf=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin_testnet.conf -datadir=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/data

If you want, you can keep this running in the background with screen:

Code:

screen -dm -S bitcoin_testnet /home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin-23.0/bin/bitcoind -conf=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin_testnet.conf -datadir=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/data

You can then see what's happening with:

Code:

screen -r bitcoin_testnet

To detach the screen, simply press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-D. You'll be back in the console, and the command will continue running in the background.

Step 2: Install and run bfgminer

Since cgminer removed the CPU/GPU functionality a long time ago, we're going to use bfgminer. You need to compile it from source code to activate these features, so that's what we're going to do. First let's install some dependencies:

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-gnutls-dev libjansson-dev uthash-dev libncursesw5-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libevent-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libhidapi-dev libsensors-dev

Now we're ready to get, configure, and make bfgminer with support for CPU and GPU mining. Also note that we need to update the git: sources to https: in the .gitmodules file, otherwise it won't work. I'm using sed here to do this, but you can of course do it manually if you prefer.

Code:

cd ~/bitcoin_testnet/
git clone https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
sed -i 's/git:/https:/g' .gitmodules
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-opencl --enable-cpumining
make

After it finished the build, you can now simply start mining your testnet bitcoins:

Code:

~/bitcoin_testnet/bfgminer/bfgminer -S opencl:auto -S cpu:auto -o http://YOUR_BITCOIN_CORE_IP:5000 -u YOUR_RPC_USER -p YOUR_RPC_PASSWORD --generate-to YOUR_TESTNET_BTC_ADDRESS --coinbase-sig "Whatever you want to write"

And that's it. Your computer should now be mining with the CPU and the GPU using OpenCL. Leave it overnight and you'll probably see some testnet bitcoins in your address.

Some questions you might have:

Q: Can I use only the GPU?

A: You can use one or the other instead of both by simply not adding it to the command (i.e. just use -S opencl:auto for GPU only or just use -S cpu:auto for CPU only).

Q: Why are there two(or more) pools in the dashboard?

A: If you are running another instance of Bitcoin Core in the local machine bfgminer will try to mine there as well. If you don't want that to happen, simply add --no-local-bitcoin to the command.

Q: Can I use a Raspberry Pi?

A: Actually yes, it should work with CPU mining, but extremely slow. You might get lucky though.

[Step 1: Install and run Bitcoin Core]

If you need some testnet bitcoins, you can easily get them by solo mining. Some other guides I've found in the web are outdated, so I made this one to work with the latest software/hardware.

You'll need:

• Latest version of Bitcoin Core(v23.0 at the time of writing)
• Special build of cgminer that allows solo mining, available from https://github.com/cmmodtools/cgminer with a small update from this guide.
• Ideally an ASIC miner. You can use any miner that works with cgminer, even the USB miner from GekkoScience, the Compac F:
  

To make things simple, for this guide I am going to assume you have two computers, one running a Compac F miner and another one running Bitcoin core. It shouldn't matter if you're running both on the same computer or if you have a different miner.

Step 1: Install and run Bitcoin Core

We're going to use the folder ~/bitcoin_testnet to save everything so that it's easy to remove once you're done and to keep things simple. You can of course use a different path if you want.

Inside ~/bitcoin_testnet create a folder called data:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/bitcoin_testnet/data

Download the Bitcoin Core for your platform into ~/bitcoin_testnet/ and extract it there.

Now let's prepare the configuration file. Create a text file named bitcoin_testnet.conf in ~/bitcoin_testnet/ and put these content in it:

Code:

testnet=1
txindex=1
server=1
[test]
rpcport=5000
rpcallowip=YOUR_MINER_IP
rpcuser=YOUR_RPC_USER
rpcpassword=YOUR_RPC_PASSWORD
rpcbind=0.0.0.0

The thing that you need to understand here is that you're setting up the Bitcoin node to run in testnet, and you're defining an RPC port(5000 in this case, can be anything), user and password, and whitelisting a specific IP to connect to your node(YOUR_MINER_IP). You'll need these details and your Bitcoin node IP later when connecting from cgminer.

You can now start running your Bitcoin node by doing the following(make sure to change user to your actual user:

Code:

/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin-23.0/bin/bitcoind -conf=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin_testnet.conf -datadir=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/data

If you want, you can keep this running in the background with screen:

Code:

screen -dm -S bitcoin_testnet /home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin-23.0/bin/bitcoind -conf=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/bitcoin_testnet.conf -datadir=/home/user/bitcoin_testnet/data

You can then see what's happening with:

Code:

screen -r bitcoin_testnet

To detach the screen, simply press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-D. You'll be back in the console, and the command will continue running in the background.

Step 2: Install and run cgminer

We're going to use an updated repo of cgminer, this one has the latest changes from kano so that we can use the Compac F, plus some fixes that allow solo mining. Of course you might want to change the options to match your environment or miner.

Code:

cd ~/bitcoin_testnet/
git clone https://github.com/cmmodtools/cgminer
cd cgminer
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native -fcommon" ./configure --enable-gecko
make

Now, in theory we should be ready, but we need one extra change. Open the file cgminer.c with your favorite text editor and change this line:

Code:

if (opt_btc_address[0] != '1') {

To this:

Code:

if (opt_btc_address[0] != '1' && opt_btc_address[0] != 'm' && opt_btc_address[0] != 'n'  ) {

Basically we need to also consider the first symbol of the testnet address, which is either n or m. OK, now run make again:

Code:

make

And now cgminer is compiled and ready. Let's create the configuration file:

Create a text file named ~/bitcoin_testnet/cgminer_testnet.conf with these contents:

Code:

{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "http://YOUR_BITCOIN_CORE_IP:5000",
                "user" : "YOUR_RPC_USER",
                "pass" : "YOUR_RPC_PASSWORD"
        }
],

"btc-address": "YOUR_TESTNET_BTC_ADDRESS",

"gekko-compacf-freq" : "400",
"gekko-compacf-detect" : true,
"gekko-start-freq" : "300",
"gekko-mine2" : true,
"gekko-tune2" : "60",

"suggest-diff" : "442",
"failover-only" : true,
}

If you don't have a testnet btc address yet, note that Bitcoin Core now doesn't generate a wallet by default any more so you will need to create one. You can read about it in createwallet. Then you should be able to getnewaddress. Make sure to use the legacy format as that's what cgminer is expecting. You address should start with n or m.

Alternatively, you can simply use the GUI. To open the GUI, first stop the bitcoind process (Ctrl-C) and then run bitcoin-qt instead. There you'll be able to easily create wallets and generate addresses by clicking around.

And now you can simply run cgminer like this:

Code:

sudo /home/user/bitcoin_testnet/cgminer/cgminer -c /home/user/bitcoin_testnet/mine_testnet.conf

You can of course also run it in the background with screen, or run this at startup, etc. It will depend on your particular setup. If you're on a pi for example, you could create a bash shell executable (~/start_mining.sh) with that code and then simply add this to /etc/rc.local:

Code:

su - pi -c "screen -dm -S cgminer ~/start_mining.sh"

That's just one example, you can choose to run it however you prefer.

There it is, it should now say:

Code:

Solo mining to valid address: YOUR_TESTNET_BTC_ADDRESS

If you leave it overnight you should hit a few blocks with the Compac F USB miner.

Happy testnet solo mining!  

I found this website: https://bitcoin.holiday

It shows significant dates for Bitcoin over the entire year in an easy to browse way.

I was looking for something like this and this seems to be rather nicely done, so I wanted to share it here.

It also gives you the option to subscribe to the calendar, which is very handy.

I think it's good to remember Bitcoin history, and celebrate it.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island country on the Persian Gulf, located between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with a population of about one and a half million people.

OpenNode is expanding its operations around the world and it is now testing Bitcoin payments in the island country.

During the testing phase, OpenNode intends to show the central bank that Bitcoin has the capacity to expand the Bahrain economy by strengthening businesses in the region.

"This is a watershed moment for the people of Bahrain, the Middle East and the Bitcoin economy as a whole,” said Afnan Rahman, CEO and co-founder of OpenNode.

“OpenNode's leading Bitcoin infrastructure solution continues to pave the way for countries, governments and reputable financial institutions to adopt the Bitcoin standard and transact on the lightning network," Rahman concluded.

Companies like OpenNode will clearly help Bitcoin adoption all around the world, specially for governments and large institutions, which I think still rely on third parties to integrate these things.

There will be a mintage of only 100 and it will be available at the end of the month.

https://thecoinshoppe.ca/product/2022-1oz-niue-2-nzd-bitcoin-cyber-green-silver-coin/







I've seen similar coins like this one here, but I don't remember seeing it in green. I thought some people here might be interested in it.

At a cafe in Gibraltar two people paid for their coffees, one with a Bolt Card and one with a legacy card.



You can see the video in the original tweet. You will see that the lightning payment is done faster than the legacy payment, and both are done in the same way, just tapping a card.

The Bolt Card is basically an NFC card with a NTAG424DNA chip, which provides better security than normal NFC cards (prevents replay attacks), and also comes with nice designs. You can also just buy blank NFC cards with that chip as well, but the Bolt Cards are probably cheaper and look better anyway.

How it works is that basically you write a LNURL withdraw link into the card, the checkout reads the NFC card, processes the link and gets the bitcoin. You can manage your cards with open source: boltcard server, and the NFC programming app.

This is really great because people will now be able to use Bitcoin directly, with no middle-men. Note that this is not a credit card linked to an exchange, this is a card that spends your sats directly from your own lightning node, all managed and controlled by only you.

Here's some more information about the Bolt Card, some more videos of it in action, and how to use them with other software, all without having to rely on any other financial institution.

Bitcoin Miner, TheCoinDad, has an extensive collection of Bitcoin miners, and has decided to showcase it publicly, creating the world's first Bitcoin Mining Museum.

It was not until 2021 that he realized he might have the most extensive Bitcoin mining collection in the world and decided to focus on helping preserve the history of Bitcoin mining hardware as much as possible. That is how the Bitcoin Mining Museum was born. His collection now extends to over 80 different Bitcoin mining machines from across the globe. To this day, he is still actively adding to this collection.

For the first time ever, the Bitcoin Mining Museum was exhibited at Mining Disrupt 2022 - Miami, Florida.

Some of the visitors of the exhibition included Ning Zhang(Avalon 2 designer) and Liu Xiangfu(Avalon co-founder).



More information:
web: https://bitcoinminingmuseum.com
telegram: @thecoindad
twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCoinDad

You can now manage your own Bolt Cards to make lightning transactions by just tapping with a card, just like you're used to do normally, but instead of relying on third parties like banks, you send the funds directly to the merchant through lightning.

Here's the repository for the management of the Bolt Cards: https://github.com/boltcard/boltcard

These Bolt Cards have a more secure chip than other standard NFC cards. Here's where you can buy one of these NFC cards, they ship worldwide and no KYC is needed: https://www.coincorner.com/TheBoltCard

And here's a bit more information about the usage of these cards, with some videos: https://stacker.news/items/29647

Any merchant that has a NFC enabled store, like https://btcpayserver.org for example, should work with these cards.

If you're in London, make sure to visit the British Museum, as they have some interesting stuff: https://www.britishmuseum.org

Since 2012 they have a Casascius coin, donated by Mike Caldwell: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_2012-4040-4


Interestingly, it looks like in 2013 they had 2 Casascius coins on display: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rnez1/back_in_2012_casascius_donated_some_coins_to/


But in a recent photo, it looks like there's only one now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wg9me1/bitcoin_cassascius_coin_2011_in_the_british_museum/


They also have a couple of Denarium coins from Finland, but not on display. They were donated by the company in 2020:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_2020-4004-2


https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_2020-4004-3


And they also have one Polymerbit note:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_2018-4089-1


The creator of the Polymerbit note is still active in this forum: polymerbit

This plaque resides on the Jacksonville, Florida Papa Johns.

The creator of the plaque is shawnleary, you can contact him at twitter, and instagram

Here is another photo:


This was a historic moment in Bitcoin, and it's good to see that it's being commemorated.