The portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, is an identikit created by National Geographic in 2011  to describe the most common person.  Sharbat Gula, the afghan girl, is the most famous image from National Geographic in the west, yet she remained completely anonymous in her own country.

This image is a lenticular print featuring two images. If you look from right to the left you will see the face, the portrait of “Satoshi Nakamoto” – the sobriquet of the creator (or creators) of the Bitcoin virtual currency. A search for Satoshi Nakamoto, on the internet brought up the male portrait before you. The image is clearly an identikit of an Asian man. Segal went for a long research to find its origin. At the time, an image search led to no results, finally after conducting search inside online video's for still images, Segal discovered that the identikit was created by National Geographic magazine in 2011. By merging together hundreds of thousands of portraits, in a bid to create the portrait of the “average person.” The generation of a face whose features would embrace and sublimate all the different racial characters of today’s global population – in other words the middleman par excellence.

If you look from left to right you will see Afghan Girl, an award-winning photograph taken by journalist Steve McCurry that was on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine. The photograph has been called “the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa.” While superimposing the two faces in order to have their eyes coinciding, Segal also included two inscriptions : If you look from right to left you will see the logo of the National Geographic while if you look from left to right you will see the bitcoin symbol “฿“ with the motto “in code we trust,” a reinterpretation of the inscription “in god we trust” found on the US twenty-dollar bill.

This work was commissioned by Lucie Fontaine’s art platform.