[Cryptography] IBM looking at adopting bitcoin technology for major currencies

[Henry Baker]

At 10:39 AM 3/13/2015, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
>> The idea of using a hash chain as the ledger in a settlement system is 
>> well established.  It would not be remotely difficult to find prior art. 
>> Harber and Stornetta discuss such schemes in their original paper.
>
>That's never stopped the USPO from granting patents in the past.
>-- 
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Now that "I claim X, where X is well-known, but now I'm doing it with a computer" has been disallowed, we're now going to see "I claim X, where X is well-known, but now I'm doing it with a blockchain".

Cue billions in lawsuits.  Enough to pay for an entire generation of lawyers' kids' college tuition.