Craig Wright, who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, files for blockchain patent

Rage Review : Journalist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan published a report telling people the story of Craig Wright, who previously claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. There is no shortage of interesting anecdotes, including Wright's attempt to apply for more than 400 patents related to blockchain and digital currency, and his cooperation with nTrust; but after Wright announced that he would give up claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, these plans will also fall through. However, Reuters reported that venture capital firm EITC Holdings Ltd submitted more than 50 related patents to the UK Intellectual Property Office, and Wright has ties to the company. From this, it seems that this Australian scholar and businessman is trying to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto in other ways.

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A new report sheds new light on the story of Craig Wright, the Australian academic and businessman who earlier this year claimed to be the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The report, written by journalist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan, tells the story behind Wright's controversial claims in a 3,500-word article that comes months after tech blogs Gizmodo and Wired published reports linking Nakamoto to Wright.

Wright’s story is full of interesting facts and anecdotes; there are claims that Wright lost a lot of money in the collapse of Costa Rican digital currency company Liberty Reserve; there is also a face-to-face meeting with Ross Ulbricht, the operator of the online black market Silk Road; and details about Dave Kleiman, who was allegedly a member of Satoshi Nakamoto’s development team and died in mid-2013.

The subject of these stories is that Wright is said to be working with a company called nTrust to apply for certain patents on the underlying technology of Bitcoin. Sources indicate that this cooperation has reached initial results, and the new company nCrypt will support the patent application of blockchain and digital currency.

It is reported that the purpose of this patent application is to "speed up the patent application process and sell it to Google or other companies."

nTrust told the media that it has established a new R&D center in London, England, and has started communicating with Google and Uber. In order to obtain relevant information, O'Hagan spent several months communicating with Wright; at one point, Wright claimed that he had prepared hundreds of Bitcoin and blockchain patent application projects.

"We are working through hundreds of patents and documents, researching completely from scratch, and we will start publishing these patents next year."

Perhaps the main purpose of this action is to prove that Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. This time Wright has the support of the company, nTrust is responsible for managing the public relations staff and reporters who release the news.

nTrust will help Wright deal with issues with the Australian Tax Office, which began investigating him and his company's assets after he applied for corporate tax offsets. Australian authorities raided Wright's home in Australia after the report came out in December.

However, the news said that Wright later gave up claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, so the Australian authorities stopped investigating him. The signature published in Wright's blog attracted great criticism, and he changed his strategy and announced that he would transfer the early hidden bitcoins between two addresses. O'Hagan's article pointed out that Gavin Andresen, a former Bitcoin Core maintainer, was the recipient of the bitcoins this time.

Wright published a short blog post, saying that he would no longer prove that he was Satoshi Nakamoto; therefore, the plan would fail. This was said to be the final blow to the relationship between Wright and the nTrust team.

But a new report from Reuters shows that the patent application mentioned in O'Hagan's article has not been finally terminated.

According to news reports, a venture capital firm associated with Wright called EITC Holdings Ltd has filed more than 50 patent applications in the United Kingdom related to blockchain and digital currencies, with plans to submit more than 400 in total.

According to data from the UK Intellectual Property Office, EITC has submitted many new patent applications, including "implementing logic gate functionality using a blockchain", "operating system for blockchain IOT devices", "methods and systems for the efficient transfer of entities on a peer-to-peer distributed ledger" using blockchain.