The Bitcoin tycoon offers to put up a $450 million, 450-foot Prometheus statue on Alcatraz Island, which will be larger than the Statue of Liberty and lead to new American innovation.
A Bitcoin mining businessman has announced that he will build a giant statue of a Greek Titan Prometheus with a height of 450 feet on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.
The planned monument of 450 million dollars would be taller than the Statue of Liberty and would be an impressive icon of American ingenuity and business.
This ambitious project is led by Ross Calvin, the owner of the Bitcoin mining company Parhelion and the founder of the foundation, the American Colossus Foundation, which is a nonprofit.
The basis of cultural renewal as advocated by the foundation is grounded in self-sovereignty, imagination, and a progressive future. Calvin imagines the statue being a grandiose to the liberation of power of technology and towers higher than Lady Liberty itself.
The Statue That Would Tower Over San Francisco Bay
The vision of Calvin is that Prometheus, the Titan who betrayed the gods by taking their fire in order to give humanity more power, should become a new image of the American destiny.
Huge and large-headed, the statue was made out of a nickel-bronze alloy, which would have towered over the Golden Gate Bridge, dominating the West Coast skyscrapers, making it an iconic statue on the West Coast just like the one on the East Coast.
The project is called The Great Colossus on Alcatraz, and it consists of a technology museum on the island and the sculpture.
Calvin refers to the figure as a giant of creative advancement that should drive creativity and ambitious success.
Challenges Ahead and Cultural Impact
The implementation of this gigantic project will necessitate federal review that would reinvent Alcatraz as a national monument and not a national park.
The legal and logistical challenges of Alcatraz Island include its historical nature as a former military base and federal prison. Calvin is planning to submit design proposals and plans to the administration for examination.
The idea was originally thought of by a child riding a sail by the island and imagining that it turned into a representation of victory and innovativeness instead of a lonely place.
According to the statements of the foundation, the purpose of the statue was to reflect the new American golden age that glorifies the heroic spirit of progress and technological empowerment.
This dream is compatible with the tech-right trends of creating big symbolic edifices to embody ideals of innovation and manifest destiny.
With the plans progressing, the project is bound to create a strong public focus and discussion on the accessibility, environmental concerns, and cultural value