V God ridiculed Satoshi Auben's blockchain patent portfolio

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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin sparked a heated debate on Twitter with a veiled attack on Craig Wright's blockchain patent portfolio.

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If you brag about how many "blockchain patents" your country/company/organization has, you don't understand blockchain.

Wright (nChain’s Chief Scientist) claims that nChain has filed more than 800 blockchain patent applications and has been granted between 50 and 100 patents. This combination of patents poses a legal threat to blockchain projects Bitcoin Cash and the Lightning Network, and critics say it violates the open-source nature of blockchains and is a form of patent fraud.

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Coingeek founder strikes back at V God

Coingeek founder and Wright's mentor Calvin Ayre fired back that Buterin doesn't understand blockchain and claimed that Ethereum is a platform for ICO fraud.

In fact, you don't understand blockchain. You can't even imitate CSW. Your techniques have been widely used in altcoin ICO scams. History will not be kind. Patents, on the other hand, are real.

— Calvin Ayre (@CalvinAyre) April 23, 2020

Their conversation started with Buterin saying “BSV is not scalable” and Ayre shot back saying “it’s stupid” and many BSV and Ethereum supporters joined in.

Dragonchain CEO Joe Roets was inspired to publish a blog post in support of the blockchain's open-source philosophy and patent system. Dragonchain DApp Eternal will permanently retain Buterin's comments on the Dragonchain blockchain and will never delete them.

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Why is nChain so eager to apply for a patent?

Jimmy Nguyen, president of the Bitcoin Association and former nChain CEO, said in March that the actual number of patent applications nChain had just reached 666. He summed up the concerns of the blockchain community on this issue nicely:

"If you listen to the bashing on the Internet, you will find that Craig is determined to patent Bitcoin and the entire blockchain as part of his world domination"

In addition to Nguyen, a former patent attorney said that blockchain companies are right to seek patents for their technology: