In some ways, 2018 reminded me of my first year as a wide-eyed undergraduate at Northwestern University in Chicago. So much promise, so much opportunity, but I still needed to figure out what my exact direction was — where exactly I wanted to plant my flag.

What started as excitement my freshman year turned into confidence as I began year two. I knew who I wanted to be, and I could see how to get there. I had the skills and resources to achieve my dream, I just needed to keep working towards it every single day.

That feeling is similar to what we’ve been experiencing in early 2019 at Thor HQ. We’ve found our footing and we know exactly who we are. We’ve got the skills and resources to build our dream, we just need to keep swinging our hammer. And swing we will!

I am grateful to be surrounded by such a hard working team, and I am so proud of everything they have accomplished. I am honored to be a part of the community that surrounds us and thrilled to continue working on their behalf. The world is embracing what we are building, and we couldn’t have done it without the support we’ve received from each and everyone one of you. For that, I say THANK YOU!

As a company — and as a movement — we can do well by doing good in the world, and there is little else I could ask for. It’s been a crazy journey already, and it’s just the beginning.

Go Thor.

— David Chin, CEO, Thor

A Look Back

What a year it was! Thor went from simply an idea in the minds of a few (slightly deranged) crypto heads to a full-fledged company with a working SaaS product and a mountain of opportunity ahead.

A year ago, we were just getting our white paper together and laying out our vision. By March, we kicked off our month-long token sale, and that vision started to come to life. While it was a lot of work getting to the point, the conclusion of our sale meant that our real work had only just begun.

We built a beta for our mobile wallet so that we could begin testing its send and receive functions in a closed-loop system before we had the required licensing to implement our complete vision. Acquiring that licensing is a (often absurdly) time-consuming process, but it was important to us to begin the engineering leg work right away so that we could hit the ground running once the legal hurdles were cleared.

Soon after, while in talks with early clients and potential customers, we understood that for our Lightning Pay™ instant payments to ever function like we imagined, we would need sign off from the on-demand companies that contractors worked with. In addition, we would need a business portal that allowed those companies to manage those outbound payments. What happened next we didn’t expect. The companies we all spoke with told us that they have such a hard time paying and managing their contractor workforce that they would pay us for the business portal alone while we were building out the Lightning Pay infrastructure. Thus spawned Odin™.

From there, we knew we had three areas of focus: platform development, customer acquisition, and compliance. We also recognized that to achieve our goals in a timely manner, we couldn’t go at it alone. We began cultivating and developing partnerships that would help us in each of these realms.

From a customer acquisition perspective, we established partnerships with Moonlight and Travala to offer our affordable benefits packages to contractors on their platforms once they are available. In order to help with platform development, we established a partnership with Dwolla to provide us fiat payment rails so that Odin could be functional by our target release date of October first (Dwolla helped us to comply with regulatory requirements as well, as we explain below). We also established a forward-looking partnership with SpotCoin to help with fiat/crypto liquidity when our platform (and our customers) are ready to begin using both.

From a regulatory and legal perspective, our primary concern was being able to offer Odin’s services as quickly as possible to a wide variety of users while maintaining regulatory compliance on a state and federal level. We quickly recognized that Thor qualified as a Money Service Business (MSB’s) under the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regulations. As a result, we focused on two main aspects of FinCEN compliance:

• Anti-Money Laundering — Key aspects of blockchain and distributed ledger technology are, by design, intended to maintain a certain level of anonymity. Institutional intermediaries that would otherwise act as gatekeepers by performing Know­Your­Customer (KYC) and customer identification procedures (CIP) are not consistently engaged to perform these compliance-based requirements for money service businesses. At Thor, we partnered with an AI-based AML monitoring and screening vendor to maintain AML/BSA compliance while also considering the very nature of blockchain technology. Unit21 was selected in large part due to their machine-learning techniques that identify non-obvious money-laundering practices in order to leverage the client’s data to find anomalous patterns. This partnership is critical to ensuring that funds passing through the Odin platform are not vulnerable to a wide range of criminal activity and financial crimes. It also allows us to keep custodial wallets on our platform — a service many cryptocurrency-based projects boast, but few have the required regulatory infrastructure in place to implement.
• Money-Transmitter/Money Service Business — In February 2018, FinCEN clarified the regulatory treatment of persons who use convertible virtual currencies or make a business of issuing, exchanging, accepting, and transmitting them. Despite the somewhat broad language used in the letter, the facts and circumstances must be evaluated to determine whether they will cause the issuer to fall under FinCEN’s MSB rules. Failure to register and meet related requirements for MSBs may subject a business and its employees to both criminal and civil penalties. Given Thor’s unique model, we recognized that we would need to register as a MSB on both the fiat and cryptocurrency side. On the fiat side, we partnered with Dwolla to facilitate the transfer of funds between users through our application. By using the Dwolla payment APIs, we were able to navigate around certain MSB requirements while still maintaining regulatory compliance. In essence, they act as the bridge between the Odin platform and financial intermediaries that process ACH transactions. Our partnership with Dwolla is critical as it allows us to offer the transactional elements of our platform immediately while we work to eventually bring these services in house.

Having established these partnerships, we were ready to get Odin to market. So that’s exactly what we did! Odin was released on October first and we never looked back. From there, our focus was squarely on customer acquisition from a business development perspective, and on shoring up Odin/Lightning Pay capabilities from an engineering and regulatory perspective.

Our immediate targets were small to medium-sized businesses (roughly 100 contractors or less) so that we could iron out the kinks of functionality and the onboarding process with businesses of manageable size that could receive appropriate TLC (tender loving care). As the process improved, we planned to move on to larger opportunities.

Which brings us to the start of 2019. We have a working product with room for functional growth, we have an established market fit, we have a roadmap for our benefits package, and we are already in talks with medium-sized companies and larger about implementing Odin as their primary tool for contractor payments and management.

It’s going to be a big year, and we’re excited to have you along for the ride!

What Lies Ahead

Our focus from a product development perspective in 2019 has two main prongs: building out Odin’s capabilities and bringing ThorCare to market.

Our approach to Odin has been to continue improving the offering suite until the platform can effectively handle every aspect of contractor management our customers need (within reason, of course). A major value the platform provides its users is the elimination of vendor redundancy.

These companies require a fairly vast array of service providers for handling their relationship with contractors throughout the 1099 lifecycle. This includes agencies to help recruit new contractors, onboarding software, digital employment/tax document storage (or even filing cabinets!), payment service providers, internal or third-party accountants, and end-of-year tax professionals — and this is just the start!

In its final form, Odin will be able to handle all of these tasks in one place. Companies will no longer have to manually transfer information from one platform to the other, or send out paper documents by mail and wait weeks for them to be completed and returned.

The new Odin capabilities we are prioritizing in 2019 are:

• a fully functioning mobile app that can receive payments, initiate bank transfers, manage contractor accounts, and is connected to the Thor Debit Card
• International payment rails for both non-U.S. companies and companies that work with non-U.S. contractors
• An integration with a 1099-compliant scheduling service provider
• Fully customizable onboarding in which companies can easily create and add documents to the onboarding flow
• Expense reporting through the mobile app
• Contractor invoicing through the mobile app
• Automated tax reporting

The exact timeline for completing each of these will be dependent on our customers’ specific needs. This is our current roadmap, but we will remain nimble and add new functions to this list as users get to know the product and how it will fit into their daily operations. We maintain that, when it comes to Odin, you can teach an old god new tricks.

Regarding our projections for bringing ThorCare to market, our timeline has not changed from our October Progress Report. We still intend to group 1099 workers in an association by geographic region or by common industry. This will allow us offer those workers access to Association Health Plans (AHP) that are structured as the type of group-plan healthcare that contractors cannot currently access on the open market.

We still envision the following timeframe for doing so:*

Q1 2019

• Thor registers as an Association within ERISA, IRS, and state rules
• Board is formed and begins drafting of by-laws
• Develop summary plan descriptions
• Draft administrative services agreement

Q2 2019

• Thor begins negotiation with insurance companies to underwrite plan and provide coverage

Q3 2019

• Thor unveils Thor Care in time for open-enrollment on November 1, 2019.

*subject to change depending on legal and regulatory considerations

As always, this timeline may evolve as we adapt to new information and circumstances throughout the year, but it contains all of the basic steps required to form an AHP under last year’s changes to the ACA.

Between Odin and ThorCare, we’ve got enough work to fill the year, but we are prepared to expand our horizons for the year as our team grows and our circumstances change.

We’ve had an incredible year at Thor HQ, and we couldn’t have done it without our community. Thank you for believing in our vision of a better gig economy, and thank you for helping us make it a reality.

Sincerely,
The Team at Thor‍

Originally published at gothor.com.

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San Francisco, February 15, 2018 — The U.S. economy is undergoing a profound change — and fast. The share of workers classified as independent contractors has skyrocketed over the last decade to 36% percent. That’s 57.3 million Americans!

That share is on pace to eclipse 50% by 2027, when an estimated 86.5 million Americans will be freelancing. Working independently will be the new normal, and it’s not simply a matter of the freelance economy growing at a faster rate than traditional employment.The number of non-freelancers is expected to DECREASE from 102.7 million to 83.4 million over the next ten years.

Despite this well documented shift in employment practices, society has yet to adapt in one key area: health insurance.

Traditionally, Americans often received health benefits from their employer, a mutually… beneficial… arrangement as companies could offer their employees access to group health plans that have lower premiums than the equivalent plans available to individuals. But the same isn’t true for independent contractors, 54% of which don’t receive any health benefits through their employers and don’t have convenient access to group health plans.

But not for long.

Thor Token will offer independent contractors access to the group health plans that the current economy has left them without, saving them money and helping them maintain the quality of life they deserve. As the value of Thor grows, we will reinvest that money in the contractors we serve, offering increased subsidies on their healthcare plans. We won’t stop until healthcare is free for contractors on our our platform!

The freelance economy needs a real solution to the problem of affordable healthcare access, and we have no problem stepping up to the plate.‍

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, February 21, 2018 — Our excellent team keeps growing! We’re delighted to announce that Leo Rong has officially joined Thor Token full time as our Lead Software Engineer. Leo will be designing the NEP-5 smart contract for our Token Sale, as well as leading our blockchain and software development efforts.

Leo joins Thor Token from Splunk, Inc., where he spent two and a half years as a software engineer. While working at Splunk, Leo learned to design and develop secure, scalable, and well-tested software applications using modern software technologies. Since last June, Leo often found himself staying up all night doing research and open source development work and nurturing his fascination with blockchain technology.

“I love Thor Token’s mission. Providing access to healthcare and other basic employment benefits to the people who need it (my mom included!) is a project I’m very proud to be a part of. I’m also very excited to work within the NEO open source ecosystem. The development community is incredibly active, intelligent, and ready to take on the world.” — Leo Rong

Leo is a graduate of Stanford University, where he received his B.S. in Computer Science in 2014.

“I met Leo at a NEO meet-up in 2017, and I immediately knew he was someone I wanted to work with. When developing our dApp for NEO’s first developer competition, Leo showed incredible leadership working late nights to get us across the finish line. Throughout the experience, his patience and mentorship ability were constantly apparent. Leo will be an incredible leader at Thor and I couldn’t be more excited to welcome him to the team.” — Matt Moravec, CTO

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San Francisco, February 21, 2018 — We are excited to announce another exceptional addition to our team of Advisors! Ben Lambert, Vice President and Senior Counsel at Umpqua Bank, will consult Thor on banking and payment issues as we establish partnerships with On-Demand companies and financial institutions.

Ben has held his position at Umpqua Bank since 2012, where he provides legal advice to bank personnel, assists General Counsel with business strategy, product, policy, and practice development, and serves as the FDIC’s primary point-of-contact for branch open/close regulatory matters. In addition, Ben drafts and negotiates all third party contracts and all lease documents for new and existing branches.

“Thor represents a new form of advocacy for the contract worker. I was drawn to the unique combination of blockchain technology and the transparent approach of putting the contract worker in control of their financial destiny. I believe Thor will reinvent the gig economy — contractors and companies finally have an efficient, safe, and cost-effective protocol for handling gig and freelance opportunities.” — Ben Lambert

Prior to his position at Umpqua Bank, Ben worked as a Managing Attorney for American Tower Corporation and as a Contract Attorney for T-Mobile USA. He graduated from the Seattle University School of Law with his Juris Doctorate in 2003.

“Ben is an incredible addition to our Advisory Board. His expertise in banking and finance paired with his enthusiasm for the decentralized revolution is a one-of-a-kind combo. We’re assembling a fantastic team of talented minds, and there is no better evidence of that than bringing Ben on board.” — David Chin, Thor Token CEO

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, March 1, 2018 — We’d like to thank everyone in the community for all of your support and engagement since launching Thor. It has been incredible, and we are honored to be taking this journey with all of you!

If you have any questions about Thor Token, please refer to our white paper.

Beware of scams: The Thor Token Sale will occur on March 12 and will require contributions through the the Token Sale feature in NEON wallet. Thor Token will never ask you to send funds to any wallet.

Now, to the exciting part. We are officially announcing our Token Sale!

Token Sale Date: The Token Sale will kick off at 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time on March 12.

New York (EST): 8:00 pm March 11, 2018San Francisco (PST): 5:00 pm March 11, 2018Berlin (CET): 1:00 am March 12, 2018Beijing (CST): 8:00 am March 12, 2018

Sydney (AEDT): 11:00 am Match 12, 2018

Whitelist date: The Whitelist opens March 2. You will be able to sign up here. The Whitelist will close when we reach 20,000 signups, so get in before it’s too late! We will have a whitelist announcement as soon as it opens on March 2. If you’d like to stay up-to-date, sign up for our email list!

Public Sale Hard Cap: USD $20 million

Total Public Sale Supply: 23 million tokens

Bonus breakdown:

• The first round will contain 10 million tokens. The buyers in the first round will receive a 25% token bonus, vested in equal amounts over six months, airdropped monthly, after the completion of the Token Sale.
• The second round will contain 5 million tokens. The buyers in the second round will receive a 10% token bonus, vested in equal amounts over six months, airdropped monthly, after the completion of the Token Sale.
• The final round will contain 5 million tokens.

For example, if a buyer purchases 1000 tokens in the first round, that will cost $1000 at the date of token sale. Then, a bonus of 25%, or 250 tokens, is subsequently paid out each month over six months. So one month after the token sale, 250 / 6 = ~42 tokens are airdropped into the specified wallet. Then, one month later (two months after the token sale), another 42 tokens are airdropped into said wallet and so on for six months.

Individual cap: There will be a $2000 (NEO + Gas) purchasing limit for every buyer for the first twenty-four (24) hours of the sale. This will be to give as many buyers as possible the opportunity to receive the early round bonus, and to make sure that the ordinary token buyers are not crowded out by large buyers.

We welcome your comments and questions. Please address them here: https://t.me/joinchat/F-UKj1Md5AilZgV9zU0Dwg. Thanks!

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!‍

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San Francisco, March 2, 2018 — We are thrilled to announce that the whitelisting for our Token Sale is officially open!

To sign up, head to sale.thortoken.com.

The whitelist will be capped at 20,000 people. KYC will be required for all signups, and there will be no limits by nationality.

The Token Sale will be held on March 12 at 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time. For more information about our Token Sale, head to our Token Sale Announcement.

For questions about whitelisting, the Token Sale, or Thor in general, head to our Telegram at https://t.me/joinchat/F-UKj1Md5AilZgV9zU0Dwg. Thanks!

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, March 5, 2018 — Thor Token is pleased to announce an official partnership with Moonlight (www.moonlight.io), a revolutionary blockchain solution focused on matching contractors with employers and augmenting the job search, placement, on-boarding, and management processes.

Moonlight complements Thor Token by adding additional features for the same client base. Thor Token focuses on benefits and payments for contractors — health insurance, paycheck processing, retirement accounts, etc. — while Moonlight helps place these contractors into the right jobs for them. Our partnership spans a wide range of freelancers’ needs and we have the opportunity to integrate these services for a smooth experience.

“Thor Token and Moonlight are natural partners. We share a customer base without filling competing needs for those customers, and we each understand the benefits of bringing a blockchain-powered solution to the rapidly growing workforce of independent contractors. We’re really excited for this opportunity to form a partnership with a company that understands our audience as intimately as we do.”

— Chris Birmingham, Moonlight Blockchain Developer / Co-Founder

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, March 9, 2018 — We have decided to update our bonus structure to reward those who believe in us despite this challenging market!

The change will be simple. Instead of vesting a participant’s bonus tokens over six months, they will be airdropped at the time of sale along with the purchased tokens. No more waiting for your bonus!

So, if you purchase $2000 of Thor Tokens during the first round, you will receive 2500 Thor Tokens upon purchase.

The bonus structure within the Token Sale itself will not be changing. For more information about our Token Sale bonus structure, read our Token Sale Announcement.

Our Token Sale will kick off on Monday, March 12 at 00:00 UTC (be sure to check what time it kicks off in your time zone). To participate, sign up at sale.thortoken.com before it’s too late!

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, March 10, 2018 — Below is a step-by-step process describing how to participate in the Thor Token Sale.

If you have any questions that are not answered in this guide, please submit a support ticket or reach out on our Telegram.

Thank you so much for participating in the Thor Token Sale and for supporting our vision of bringing stability to the lives of independent contractors and gig workers!

1. Start by downloading Neon. Open the program and login to or create a new Neon Wallet. While you can sign in with a separate wallet through Neon if you have the requisite private key, we will only be able to provide support for a Neon Wallet. We do not recommend using ledgers, as they may cause issues.

2. Once your wallet is opened, click the “Participate in a token sale” button.

3. Click the “Add a new token to purchase” button.

4. On the following screen, click “Add a new token.”

5. In the input field that appears, enter the Hash that we provide below and then hit “save.” You can verify the hash on neotracker.io.

Thor Token Sale Hash: 67a5086bac196b67d5fd20745b0dc9db4d2930ed

6. On the following screen, you will see “THOR” in the list of available tokens.

7. Click on the “Participate in a token sale” button again.

8. Click on the drop down menu below “Select ICO token to purchase” and select THOR.

9. You can then choose to use either NEO or Gas to purchase tokens in the sale.

10. Then select the amount of NEO or Gas you would like to use. Please note that in the first 24 hours of the sale, there will be a $2000 limit on your purchasing power, this will be to give the ordinary token buyers an equal chance to participate in the sale.

11. Select “I have checked — it performs verification” from the options below.

12. Finally, click “Purchase”! Before you click, make sure the amount you have selected to spend is correct.

13. Your Thor Tokens (including your bonus tokens) will be in your wallet as soon as the next block is verified! It should only take a few minutes at most.

Thanks again for your support!

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!

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San Francisco, March 23, 2018 — We attended day one of the CB — Cryptocurrency Blockchain Conference in San Francisco and had quite the day! The projects there ranged from the exceedingly practical (like Antiva Health) to the absolutely outrageous (looking at you Stroken Token).

While (nearly) every speaker had something interesting to say, there were three takeaways that really stuck with me. Without further ado:

For currencies to be adopted, they have to be spendable

Well, no duh. But Crypterium co-founder Austin Kimm, the event’s keynote speaker, had a lot to say about how to get us there. He expects the crypto-economy to reach $10 trillion by 2026, and sees crypto-banks (yes, the dreaded B-word) as the bridge to get us there. He predicts that their mobile crypto-bank will allow for crypto payments in over 40 million stores — a tough task, surely, but key to turning cryptocurrencies into an actual currency and not just an investment.

The SEC is serious about utility tokens

The SEC was in the house and had a lot to say about Utility Tokens. The agency was represented by Nadia Brannon form the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations. Her key points included:

• Simply calling yourself a Utility Token is not a guarantee that the SEC will agree with you. If you want to avoid being deemed a security, your token better have a use.
• Furthermore, if you are going to call yourself a Utility Token, you can’t simply market yourself to investors, you need to market yourself to people that you actually expect to use your token.
• You better not promise your investors great returns.
• And lastly, Brannon wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that the SEC is good, folks! She emphasized that the purpose of the agency is to maintain fair and transparent markets, which is true, whether they accomplish it or not. Though her pitch was well articulated, I got the impression that many in the audience remained unconvinced.

VCs, you really don’t need them

Jay Eum of Translink Capital spoke to the pros and cons of Token Sales and Venture Capitalists. While he was confident that there are strong advantages to using VCs over the Token Sale model (big surprise coming from a VC), I remained unconvinced.

The largest advantage he trumpeted for the VC route is that a business can lean on the expertise of their VC investors. But this is a double-edged sword. What a VC may see as providing guidance a business may see as ceding control of decisions. While there is certainly a place for VCs in the greater world of fundraising, we still prefer to “sell the dream.”

On the whole, the conference was very informative. We are bringing cryptocurrencies and blockchain into the everyday lives of people around the world, and the conference left me convinced we have the right minds in the industry to shepherd us into tomorrow.

Thor is the one-stop mobile platform for blockchain-powered gig economy solutions. We’re giving contractors (freedom workers!) instant pay, access to affordable healthcare, and retirement planning — all while helping companies save serious money on payment processing and contractor management. A part of the NEO Smart Economy, Thor is bringing the full power of the blockchain to the rapidly growing freelance workforce. Welcome to the Gig Economy Revolution!‍

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