[2016-06-20] coindesk.com |The Man Who Claims to Be Bitcoin's Creator is Seeking

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The Man Who Claims to Be Bitcoin's Creator is Seeking Blockchain Patents

A new report has shed details on the story of Craig Wright, the Australian academic and businessman who earlier this year sought to prove he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin.

The mammoth 35,000-word piece by journalist and novelist Andrew O’Hagan captures the behind-the-scenes effort of Wright’s controversial reveal earlier this year, when he sat for interviews with The Economist, GQ and the BBC as part of an effort to bolster his claim. That move came months after tech publications Gizmodo and Wired published reports in December connecting Wright to the Satoshi identity....

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[odolvlobo]

Now it all makes sense.

Anyway, even if he really is Satoshi Nakamoto, it will be difficult to patent the technology when he released an implementation as open source. And why would he want to patent it?

[Karartma1]

This guy has been able to make the Satoshi Nakamoto Quest into a very boring and tediuos intellectual exercise. Why don't he just move away from it?

Unlock your coins or disappear.

[richardsNY]

Again this dude? I thought after he made a fool out of himself by not proving he is Satoshi, I though he would stay far away from the media and stuff. But no. Don't think anyone is taking this dude serious anymore.