Artists and Hackers Create ‘Parallel’ Economy at Cryptoanarchy Institute

In 2003, a group of Czech guerilla artists called Ztohoven began leaving their marks on government-claimed property in Prague. They turned a neon heart on a castle into a question mark. They published the cell phone numbers of government employees in an art exhibition. They even hacked a government news station and began to broadcast footage of an atomic explosion during the weather forecast.
After gaining notoriety for these acts and more for over a decade, the group has recently changed course. Earlier this month, Ztohoven’s artists joined forces with some of the hackers they’d worked with previously to form the Cryptoanarchy Institute. They’ve settled in a former factory building in a suburb of Prague called Holeovice. The name of their new haunt? ‘Paraleln Polis,’ which is Czech for ‘parallel city.’
The crypto hub’s pseudonymous spokesperson, Petr lka, told Hello Czech Republic:

This post was published at Bitcoin Magazine on NOVEMBER 11, 2014.