Other Random Kryptos Musings
When the hint BERLIN was revealed I was 100% positive the next word was going to be TUNNEL --- a hidden, buried, Cold War operation to tunnel under the Berlin Wall and transmit intelligence underground using electromagnetism (wires) that was exposed figuratively and literally by Soviet intelligence thanks to a mole.Then the next word was revealed to be CLOCK. Oh well, must have something to do with the "set theory" clock. However, I recently read the British code name for that tunnel operation was "Stopwatch." That's basically a clock, right? Misdirection? Coincidence? Helpful? Seeing what I want to see?
I also read some early Sanborn interviews and he talks about peeling layers of onions and sand grains in hour glasses a few times. The outer layer of the "tableaux" hasn't been used yet. I wondered if the hour glass comments could somehow hint at a shape or pattern, but nothing has jumped out at me yet.
The exchange operator can start with a reserve of cryptocurrency and fiat assets in order to provide initial volume for trading. But how can the operator create market volume without price signals given rapidly changing prices? If the price he offers deviated from the other bitcoin exchange service even for a short time, traders can rapidly arbitrage on the difference, deplete the reserves, and bankrupt the exchange.
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