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Donald Knuth reward cheque on OpenSea (opensea.io)
4 points by zktrust on Oct 4, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



> Winning bidder instantly turns into an account holder at one of the most exclusive, legendary private bank The Bank of San Serriffe where intelligence is converted into electronic hexadecimal cash.

Obviously not. Knuth won't enter the name of the "buyer" on his web site.

> Membership: Only the very few, the 0.1% (the intelligentsia).

Certainly not. Source: am "member", but average.


Yeah. I have an actual cheque from Knuth. This is just some NFT bullshit.


Which book was yours for? Mine is "Computers and Typesetting E".


TAOCP




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