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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 16 November, 2022 5:00 PM<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>I believe a list member created or was a main force behind BTC creation.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Hal Finney was on this list in those days, as I recall.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>He sure was Gordon. When Prime95 started and we were getting a new Mersenne prime every coupla years, Hal was intrigued by the notion I think I introduced him to: discovering a Mersenne prime, then selling the number to someone who wants to be a record holder in the math world for all time. We started a subgroup in the late 90s where he was the man who knew too much. If there is any such thing as knowing too much, Hal was the man. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Such a pleasant gentleman too, he never let it go to his head. If I had half the brains Hal had, I would jump at every opportunity to act like a bigshot, and it wouldn’t even be an act. It would be just telling the truth: I would be an actual bigshot. Hal had twice that much brain, and just wasted, WASTED all those perfectly good opportunities to act like a bigshot. Hal wasted all that on kindness and humility! Harumph.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I really miss that man.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>