The British Museum has some Bitcoin items on display

[Flamous]

That is really interesting and fascinating. But it was not right to bring the artefacts. The British museum should return the ancient sculptures.

[NotATether]

Anyone can come up with an excuse to justify their actions, doesn't mean it is applicable.
No one was appointed custodians of art to preserve art you didn't create. Anyone who is capable of making it, should get to keep it, whether or not one thinks they can preserve it.

I'm not particularly happy that these items were literally stolen to British Museum, but your line of thinking leads to cultural disasters like when Syria was taken over by terrorists in 2014 and they destroyed all the artifacts (on purpose).

What happened to Syria then was e.g. threatening to happen to Iran in the 70's.

[Upgrade00]

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I wouldn't want to derail this thread further, but I'll reply to this.
You should note that both situations here are 'cultural disasters'. Colonial nations stealing the cultural artifacts of the locals in that area and a terrorist group destroying them are both same, except in the former, they do it for their own profit and even the locals would have to pay to see their own cultural heritage.

My line of thinking is that no one should pillage a country of their arts, neither should anyone destroy it. And there should not be any justification for either.

[Otoh]

This was the original 2012 thread on The British Museum Casascius coins, I like to use the display one for sending donations to, it would be nice if they made this possibility more obvious to visitors IMO.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122274.0;all

https://blockstream.info/address/1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW