nChain hasn't filed a new patent application since 14 August 2024. Have they run out of inventions?

The prize fund has now been increased to 300k sats.

Clue No. 6 - an easy one I tell the orchestra what to play I carry electrons on their way I check your ticket on the train I think the meaning is quite plain

Clue No. 5 will be *oming as soo* as som*one lets me know t*ey h*ve fou*d at least one of th* words.

Clue No. 4: A mechanism to squeeze Don Draper’s output.

The prize fund has now been increased to 250k sats.

Clue No. 3, and a change of tack: My start is when you rest your rear My middle you may well mishear When Prince sings what could not compare And my end is what you did to esculent fare

The total of European patent cases filed by nChain (and which have published) has now reached 652, the latest one appearing just yesterday. The proven liar and fraud Craig Wright (who can't even code) still features heavily as inventor on many of the applications that are still being pursued. An increasing number of applications are, however, being dropped by either failure to pay a renewal fee or respond to a communication issued by the EPO. Whether this is simply a cost-saving measure as the money gradually runs out or something else is not clear yet.

Clue No. 2 I’m caught in an umbrella but not in the rain I fall in Spain and also on the plain I am always short and never long I don’t believe but do belong I’m caught in a lie but not in the truth I’m at the end but not long in the tooth

Interesting discussion with my favourite Bitcoin fiction author.

Fountain

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Some people are really superstitious. 888888

Clue #1. I’ve just added another 100,000 sats. My first is in rain but not in snow My second was not yesterday but will be tomorrow My third is in air but not in the ground My fourth rings true but makes no sound My final you raise to the power of i pi To equal the square of imaginary i.

I wrote 12 words in a copy of The Bitcoin Standard 2 years ago. Sadly, the contents remain unclaimed. Maybe I should offer some clues here so someone can win it.

I am working on putting together a response to the grounds of appeal filed earlier this month by nChain's patent attorneys. The grounds are so poorly argued and full of deliberate obfuscation that it's a very difficult to stop myself from being insulting. I must, however, remain professional and gently but firmly point out to the Board of Appeal how the appellant is completely wrong. I might, however, manage to work in a few little mentions of the co-inventor Mr Wright being a proven liar and fraud, not that this makes any difference since the patent is invalid regardless.

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“Malevolence lies with the sheep, not the wolves.” Brilliant article about a deeply odd character with some very based views.

The Spectator

Jonathan Bowden: my eccentric school friend who became a far-right hero

When my old school, Presentation College, Reading, was demolished a decade ago, the Labour council desperately searched for famous old boys after w...

Tonight I went to see, and briefly met, the all round great guy that is Dominic Frisby, who now knows me as Craig Wright’s part-time Nemesis. I also won a prize for my far-right singing.

Craig Wright’s journey into Martyrdom is almost complete. His fake Messiah story, just like all his other stories, will come to an end soon with a General Civil Restraint Order (GCRO) being placed on him, following a court hearing on Friday that he didn’t even bother attending, not even remotely. COPA was allowed to write the order that Mellor J will sign off in the near future. The GCRO will prevent Wright from bringing any further actions without the permission of the court, thereby bringing his litigation antics to a final end. Wright will undoubtedly use this to show that he has been martyred for his cause, which he still claims is creation of the real Bitcoin. The question now is whether, and how, he will try to get his revenge on the people he sees as having attacked him, even though of course he was the aggressor in the first place. For now he has gone quiet but has indicated that he is working secretly behind the scenes. On what we don’t know. Given his personality, we should not be surprised if he comes back fighting in some way, inevitably again with lots of lies. As a bonus for those who have been following this closely, it seems likely that Wright will also be placed on what is known as the vexatious litigant list, which will prevent him from initiating any court action without the permission of the court indefinitely (unlike a GCRO, which is time limited).

GOV.UK

Vexatious litigants

List of vexatious litigants, banned from starting court cases without permission.

There are people on this list who have been there for over 50 years. The longest serving one is Ida Matthews, who has been on the list since 1950. For what, I don’t know. One possibility for future action, which Wright has already threatened, is that he will try to initiate patent infringement proceedings through the company nChain (soon to be Teranode), which owns hundreds of patents, many of which have Wright as an inventor. Since Wright doesn’t own or control the patents, it seems these actions would not be covered by any civil restraint order. Mellor J has, however, already indicated that he for one would view any infringement action somewhat sceptically. It seems unlikely, at least to me, that nChain has any patents that could realistically be a threat to anyone working in Bitcoin, for three main reasons. The first is that Wright did not invent Bitcoin, can’t code and doesn’t even understand how Bitcoin works. The chances therefore of him coming up with any inventions that could be useful or cover any aspect of the real Bitcoin seem remote. The second is that any inventions that have been patented have a priority date of 2016 at the very earliest, which is long after Bitcoin was first developed. The third is that any other inventors working for nChain were employed to develop BSV, so any valid inventions coming from them would be very unlikely to cover anything significant on Bitcoin. The most likely outcome from all this seems to me that Wright will just disappear gradually into the wilderness, possibly shouting and screaming as he goes but, apart from his diminishing group of cult followers, nobody will need to pay him any attention.

Civil restraint order hearing this morning for Craig Wright. He’s not even opposing it. I think he’s done. Not sure if anyone is going to be there to report it. I certainly can’t be bothered.