<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On May 3, 2019, at 12:36 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Somebody, nobody knows who, has started a website with a countdown clock claiming that when it reaches zero Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's creator, will reveal himself to the world:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://gotsatoshi.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://gotsatoshi.com/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">It's probably a hoax but it got me thinking for the hundredths time why Satoshi has chosen to remain anonymous since October 31 2008 when he started it all. He must have an iron will because he has 980,000 Bitcoins making him one of the richest people in the world but he has never spent a single one. Whoever Satoshi is he's got to be a brilliant but very odd man who is totally uninterested in fame or great wealth. That's why I don't see how Satoshi could be a group of people as some say, a group could never keep a secret this big for this long, somebody would look at all those Bitcoins and want to buy a new car. There is just a limited number of people that strange.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Unless I were otherwise fabulously wealthy or somehow immune to the need for wealth, had I that much coin, I’d have exchanged at least a tenth of them by now (for a nice pad, great food, ever more books, and various charities*).</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* I reckon that might not be called an exchange. One thing I’d make sure refugees desperate to flee Central America, Yemen, Syria, etc. got some legal defense. And of course I’d plow some coin into longevity research.;)</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>