Thank you for remembering Lauda.  Her legend will live forever.

I had hoped to make some sort of a meaningful speech here.  Right now, rather, I will just remind everyone of the Lauda memorial crypto-puzzle to claim 0.002 BTC.

I am thrilled that whilst I slept, on 2022-04-30, someone doubled the prize money from the 0.001 BTC that I had put into that address on 2021-03-14.  It means more to me than I can say.  I think that Lauda would have been touched.

How can the puzzle be too difficult?  Or perhaps, is it infeasible to break?  I myself could reproduce the private key from scratch, using only the information that is publicly available on the blockchain.  It is, in essence, a Nullian Brainwallet.  To claim the money, simply think like me!  :-)

Lauda was unique.  Noble, harsh but caring, and totally incorruptible.  She had a fun side.  I created the puzzle because I wanted to do something here that I think she would have appreciated, for the enjoyment of everyone who misses her.  I know that she touched many people here.

She was to me only a faceless, voiceless ghost—a disembodied soul in cypherspace—the bare essence of a person, devoid of all else.  Nonetheless, she was one of the most significant people to me in the course of my life; could a unique soul not be so?  Indeed, could a unique soul be not so?  She left an indelible mark on me.  It is my privilege to have known her.  I would not trade that experience for any money in the world.