Just applying Occams Razor here, this whole story makes more sense if the E-Gold engineers just bootstrapped this project without Musk/Thiel involvement. E-Gol

Just applying Occams Razor here, this whole story makes more sense if the E-Gold engineers just bootstrapped this project without Musk/Thiel involvement. E-Golds most talented 1-2 engineers weren’t poor people, and could definitely afford a 5 year career break.