About those gasoline lines on the Eastern Seaboard, Elliptic has reported : That the Darkside ransonware group received $5 million from Colonial Pipeline through a Bitcoin wallet. Turns out a German chemical distribution company Brenntag on May 11 also sent $4.4 million, to the same cyberspace to prevent the leakage of stolen data. There were other incidents, as that wallet has received a total of $17.5 million since March, and $12.5 million were re-sent to other sites. Just today, though, there is uncertainty about what exactly has happened to the remaining $5 million, for that location ceased operations. One theory is that the U.S. government was able to do this.   Then again, nothing has been announced. Stephen Hawking might well have been the smartest person alive , then he passed away three years ago.  Perhaps Paul Allen, who with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, might well have then become the smartest.  Allen scored 10 points higher in the SAT than Gates, with a perfect 1600 (the m