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RE: Craig Wright chat on slack last night (04.05.2017)
He was claiming... back before all the Satoshi stuff... that bitcoin scripting can be Turing complete. Then, when all the Satoshi stuff happened, Jon Matonis looked at his research and said something to the effect that it was voluminous and significant, and made some remark that seemed to confirm Turing completeness. (I summarized all that here a while ago). Next, Wright's company spent a year filing patents. Now, the other day, I read that Matonis is going to work for Wright's company (http://www.coindesk.com/craig-wrights-new-company-developing-bitcoin-core-alternative/). I am much less interested in whether Wright is Satoshi then I am to see where this company of his is going.
Good write up @remlaps, you should repost it on Steem
Thanks. Good idea. Maybe I'll repost it here with an update. Just noticed that was about a year ago, so its a good time for an update.
When I read patents and bitcoin in the same sentence I can't help but think of Blockstream.
I think the patents are to prevent attacks by other companies trying to profit from his and other research. The goal all along was permissionless transactions and free markets, which hopefully BTC ETH STEEM DASH EOS can provide.
Hopefully yes, cause bitcoin obviously failed at it.
I only see it as a gateway to being able to buy other cryptos nowadays.