The Waterworks of Money maps financial power through art and research, exploring how banks create money and bitcoin's emerging role

The Waterworks of Money is an art project by Carlijn Kingma, Thomas Bollen, and Martijn Jeroen van der Linden that visualizes the financial system as a network of reservoirs and channels. Based on over 100 interviews and 2,200 hours of research, the project reveals how banks create money through lending, highlighting a public misunderstanding of this process. It also examines bitcoin's growing presence in traditional finance as a potential challenger to existing financial power structures.