startup nChain, associated with a man who once proclaimed himself to be ’s (BTC) creator, has been granted three (BCH)-related patents by the European Patent Office (EPO), according to an July 11.
The three new patents relate to the development of new methods of digital rights protection using blockchain technology and specify bitcoin Cash’s blockchain as the standard technology on which transactions are demonstrated. The first patent listed in nChain’s announcement is entitled “A method and system for verifying ownership of a digital asset using a distributed hash table and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger,” while the second two patents are both entitled “A method and system for verifying ownership of a digital asset using a distributed hash table and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger.”
NChain’s Chief Scientist –– who is notorious for himself to be the anonymous inventor of bitcoin, , back in 2016 –– that 2018 would be “the year” for bitcoin, which he conflates with bitcoin Cash.
Last fall, Wright, an Australian entrepreneur and computer scientist, that he in fact was not the creator of the top cryptocurrency.
In February, 2018, Wright was for $5 billion –– to compensate for allegedly stolen bitcoin –– by the estate of David Kleiman. Kleiman was a computer scientist and cyber-security expert, whom many to have been one of the developers behind ’s invention.
Published at Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:47:00 +0000
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