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To: sixty2nds who wrote (6892)	4/2/2023 3:50:12 PM
From: benwood	4 Recommendations Recommended By pak73 sixty2nds The Ox towerdog Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10701

I have one of the oldest continuously active e-mail addresses in the world now, from well before 'Internet' was coined, before HTML browsers emerged, before text based browsers emerged. I got the first spam ever sent. I was so pissed... there was no name for it then, it was kind of shocking. Now it's nearly all spam. My e-mail addr went live in late 84 or early 85 and has never changed, although now it's just forwarded somewhere else. The pre-Internet that I was on for a while was Usenet, a bunch of universities linked together, UNIX commands could allow you to upload or download a file, you could get status of anybody in the world and even initiate a chat (talk) randomly based on their public file that would echo when you issued a 'finger' command. There was also ARPANET, which I may have touched on a couple times, also MILNET which I used a bit. Once I downloaded a disassembler from Europe at some relatively fast rate, 64 kilobits/sec? Whatever it was, I did some research and discovered the digital bandwidth between Europe and the US at that time was 4x was I was using, meaning for about a minute, I consumed 25% of the total bandwidth across the Atlantic. Anyway... I agree that the current crop of Cryptos will be replaced. The main thing is they contribute to water shortages and global warming. People are switching to EVs and now competing with crypto miners, as if mining actual minerals wasn't bad enough for the environment. It will be viewed as really crazy in historical retrospect, imo. Same as NFT. We had a lot of SunOS computers, the first one I remember was like 80 grand. Later, I had a desktop workstation that was 5-6k. In today's dollars, the former would be 200k and the latter about 15k.

To: sixty2nds who wrote (6892)	5/6/2023 3:17:56 PM
From: sixty2nds	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10701

Since I posted about QRTEP 3/30/23... I have had a couple GTC Buy Limit Orders Fill. The last was filled May 2. I currently hold a slightly overweight 1.2 Full Positions. Average Cost = $29.54 Earnings reported May 5th. I have not had a chance to review the Transcript or Recording. It was reported QRTEA Beat on Revenue and Earnings. Depending on The Action I might run the QRTEP to 2 Full Positions. Last I saw Michael Burry was still holding 600,000 shares. A greatly reduced position. Cheers, 60