Berliners will be able to see Bitcoin B launched on the Berliner-fernsehturm tower on January 21st.
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It lit up the night sky in Berlin this weekend, decorating Germany’s tallest building with a giant orange B.
Source: Twitter
On January 21, the Bitcoin logo lit up the Berliner Fernsehturm–better known as the TV Tower. German Bitcoin players took to Twitter and social media to share photos and videos of the lights, which were then shared by major Bitcoin Twitter accounts.
The man behind B, Tilo, a German bitcoiner, explained to Cointelegraph why he came up with the idea:
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“I just want to draw attention to Bitcoin! I’m a fan of this kind of guerrilla action and will continue down the road.”
Tilo is the CEO of an events agency that will host this year’s “Best of Blockchain” conference. He explained that the process of setting up the light display is simple: “All you need is a mixer, a power station, a special bitcoin symbol.” Tilo tried the process late last year, “but the beamer I used was very weak,” he explained.
This isn’t the first time bitcoin logos or themes have been projected onto iconic buildings. In May 2021, “Fiat is the Bubble, Bitcoin is the Pin” was launched at the Bank of England in London.
Tilo had previously spread bitcoin slogans on the iconic Berlin Wall and shared a list of products needed to synchronize the lights for those willing to try it out however he insists such “ads” are not technically allowed, so it’s best to tread carefully.
Bitcoin on the Berlin Wall b. Source: Twitter
While the Reddit group of bitcoiners in Germany celebrated the event with a series of “noise” comments, the subreddit for Berliners took a different approach with one commenter criticizing the light show as “light pollution”, while another hopes “it [Bitcoin] never takes it.” It is. They continued:
“Bitcoin is turbo capitalism without limits and policies, masquerading as a different guise and motto every six months.”
The price per bitcoin now sits comfortably in the $20,000 range after booming through the mid-teens, while network security recently reached an all-time high hash rate, or the number of searches per second for bitcoin miners, recently reaching 300 ExaHashes per second.
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Moreover, the number of bitcoin users around the world is in the millions, while the developing world has begun researching and leveraging the decentralized and universal properties of bitcoin Berliners in the German capital to use bitcoin to pay for metro sandwiches via the Lightning network They can do it.
