"A Denver-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur wants to build a 450ft-tall statue of the Greek Titan Prometheus on Alcatraz Island. The plan proposed by Ross Calvin, the founder of the American Colossus Foundation and chief executive of the bitcoin-mining company Parhelion, would dramatically change the skyline of San Francisco Bay. According to the foundation's , the proposed monument, The Great Colossus of Prometheus on Alcatraz, would be taller than the 305ft-high Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour and serve as a "beacon of optimism"."
"The statue would be made of a nickel-bronze alloy and cost around $450m. Calvin hopes to present renderings and a formal proposal, including plans for an accompanying "technology museum", to US president Donald Trump and his representatives by early next year. Calvin says the inspiration for the monument came during a 2018 visit to San Francisco, when he watched the sunset over the Bay and felt that the skyline was missing a landmark akin to the Statue of Liberty."
Ross Calvin, a Denver-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur and founder of the American Colossus Foundation and bitcoin-mining firm Parhelion, proposes a 450-foot Prometheus statue on Alcatraz Island to alter the San Francisco Bay skyline. The Great Colossus of Prometheus would exceed the Statue of Liberty's height, be forged from a nickel-bronze alloy, and cost around $450 million. Calvin plans renderings and a formal proposal, including an adjacent technology museum, for presentation to President Donald Trump and his representatives. Calvin cites a 2018 sunset over the Bay and childhood impressions of Alcatraz as inspiration and frames Prometheus as a symbol of technological heroism.
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