This is based upon the analysis of monetary flow within the bitcoin network in 2012 that you can read about in the paper «A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names.» (coindesk.com)
Michael Stevenson's The Fountain of Prosperity was created after the artist's extensive research into the Phillips Machine, a.k.a. Moniac (Monetary National Income Analogue Computing Machine), a hydro - mechanical analogue computer invented in 1949 by Bill Phillips with the purpose to represent fiscal and monetary flows in a national economy. (terremoto.mx)
«I think it's very progressive and it's smart to go about it that way to be able to control the monetary flows.» (cnbc.com)