Post #2485350

Oh it gets better. > The statue — which rises 15 feet atop a 7-foot base — was commissioned and bankrolled by a collective of crypto investors seeking to boost visibility for their memecoin, $PATRIOT, according to _The Daily Beast_. > Sculptor Alan Cottrill told _The Times_ in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf. > > His suggestion went down like an offering of water “to a person dying of thirst,” he said. “Immediately everybody jumped on board.”