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By David Yaffe-Bellany
London High Court Report
For much of its existence, crypto firm nChain has been governed by a golden rule of policy: It wasn’t a smart concept to challenge Craig Steven Wright, the clinical leader of r.
At nChain’s London offices, Dr. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, was treated as if he were a philosopher king. He wore three-piece suits and drove a Lamborghini. A middle manager would record Dr. Wright’s ramblings on hard-to-understand technical topics, and then share the recordings with a team of researchers, tasked with turning his mind into patents.
In 2017, Martin Sewell, an nChain worker, circulated a skeptical note documenting technical errors in a series of papers published by Dr. Wright on economics and computer science. A manager called Mr. Sewell and told him he had to stop.
The deference to Dr. Wright “was just an ordinary arrangement,” Mr. Wright recalled. Sewell. ” Like he’s some kind of god of everything. “
In fact, Dr. Wright’s authority was based on the claim of a kind of divine meaning: he was the mysterious author of Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency.
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