[2017-04-14] ET: PE firm acquires the comp of bitcoin's self proclaimed creator

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PE firm acquires the company behind bitcoin's self proclaimed creator

http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/pe-firm-acquires-the-company-behind-bitcoins-self-proclaimed-creator/58182301

A company built around the research of Craig Wright, who has claimed to have invented the bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been sold to a private equity firm in a deal the company says is the biggest to date involving bitcoin's underlying blockchain technology.

The deal swings the spotlight once again on to Wright, a 46-year-old computer scientist who is the cryptocurrency's most controversial figure. He hopes to remain central to the technology's future, telling Reuters the goal is to build bitcoin into a global "system with no ruler, no king."

"We will scale and grow bitcoin to become what it was envisioned to be," he said. "All I do is to help grow the use of bitcoin, and I want to see it in daily use by at least a billion people on-chain. We have the funds, the people and the technology to do this."

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