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<div><br></div><div><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333">" The plan was always clear to the men behind nCrypt. They would bring Wright to London and set up a research and development centre for him, with around thirty staff working under him. They would complete the work on his inventions and patent applications – he appeared to have hundreds of them –</font><b><font color="#d61d3b"> the whole lot would be sold as the work of Satoshi Nakamoto</font></b><font color="#333333">, who would be unmasked as part of the project. Once packaged, Matthews and MacGregor planned to sell the intellectual property for upwards of a billion dollars. MacGregor later told me he was speaking to Google and Uber, as well as to a number of Swiss banks. ‘The plan was to package it all up and sell it,’ Matthews told me. ‘The plan was never to operate it.</font></i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since February, Wright has filed more than 50 patent applications in Britain through Antigua-registered EITC Holdings Ltd, which a source close to the company confirmed was connected to Wright, government records show. </i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>Interviews with sources close to EITC Holdings Ltd, which has two of Wright's associates as directors, confirmed it was still working on filing patent applications and Britain's Intellectual Property Office has published another 11 patent applications filed by the company in the past week.</i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It looks like he is trying to patent the fundamental building blocks of any blockchain, cryptocurrency, or distributed ledger system," said Antony Lewis, a consultant on bitcoin issues to whom Reuters showed the patent titles and some of the texts."</i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></i></div><div><div>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160622/07071134780/fake-satoshi-nakamoto-trying-to-patent-all-sorts-bitcoin-related-ideas.shtml</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div></body></html>