<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 14, 2025, at 13:16, Tony Patti <crypto@glassblower.info> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SFHello-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style="">> "The mantle of being Keeper of Kryptos brings in a not-trivial amount of money, about $40K/year, but it's clerical work and increasingly annoying to do."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style="">Actually, the NYT article states:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style="">"He estimates earning about $40,000<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><u>OVER THE YEARS</u></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from the replies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 43, 147);"><span style="">So, actually a lot less money, likely $4,000 per year, since “About 10 years ago, he started charging people $50 for a “short personal response”</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks. That makes the point even stronger. The Keeper of Kryptos is even more of a crap job. More reason to just open up the box with the mystery in it.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jon</div><div><br></div></body></html>