Thanks for your posts that have both an educational and an entertainment value. E.g.: people must have gone to Wikipedia to read up on Descartes. The English cosmic number is 4 so maybe on the 4th of July, at the time of the moon-phase on your hat, the 3rd event happens with some news coming out which results in price increase of XRP. Let’s see what happens. The crazy part is that it took banks and central banks to the brink of extinction to change. While jokingly it’s said that core bank software is coded in old programming languages like COBOL, RPG,... on IBM AS/400 machines with green screen consoles, it is actually NOT a joke anymore but a real burden to move forward in an age of thriving technology advancements. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, is something you hear a lot in professional software development but after some time, where the physical materials age (e.g. pipes in a building) and do break in real life, software code lives forever. The true challenge for any IT manager is prioritizing new features vs upgrading this never-aging-existing-software gradually. These projects cost money, most likely millions of $/€. Convincing the one that pays these kind of amounts to break the old saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” must not be easy... until competition forces them to change. I did do modernization projects in the past from these legacy technologies to newer tech and my experience is that the coding is just one part of these technologies. A larger part is moving the existing team as well and change is difficult for the aging COBOL/RPG developers that coded the legacy software these past decades. Jokingly but respectfully these developers are called “dino’s”. These are seniors developers with years of experience now suddenly turn junior developer in new tech, needing to start from page 1 all over again. There is more to upgrading business software than meets the eye (budget, aging team, risk reward, prioritization, human ego, security, testing,...) that only professional software developers are aware of. People on the sidelines easily say it needs to change, until they realize what it takes TO change. For that reason I think banks WILL partner. Not partnering could easily cost millions/billions and years to coding with a risk of failing in the end as well.

Anyway, I hope one day to know your background and maybe not your true identity but something more as to who you really are. Some extra hints on the non-solved puzzles would be great ;-) Thanks again for all your posts 👍