While "649" may be an exaggeration, the number of wrong/false claims/predictions of payment is still quite staggering. The pattern I observed is the following:
A. For the first 10-12 years of this saga, the seriously believed claims/predictions (either by strongly influential individuals or multiple influential individuals) were posted quarterly, that is on average four times per year, every year.
B. For the last 4-6 years such claims/predictions by such persons have occurred twice a year each year on average, with end of each year always being one of those prediction dates.
C. This means conservatively speaking we're looking at 52 false/wrong prediction dates.