Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has taken a veiled swipe at Satoshi claimant Craig Wright over his blockchain patent portfolio, resulting in a heated debate on Twitter.

Buterin said that anyone who brags over blockchain patents does not empathise blockchain:

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Wright (nChain's chief scientist) claims nChain has filed more than 800 applications for blockchain patents, and has been granted betwixt l to 100. This patent portfolio poses a legal threat to blockchain projects from Bitcoin Cash to Lightning, and critics contend it goes against the open up-source nature of blockchain and is a course of patent trolling.

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Coingeek founder and Wright's mentor Calvin Ayre returned fire by saying that Buterin doesn't sympathize blockchain and challenge Ethereum was a platform that had cultivated ICO scams.

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The conversation devolved from there with Buterin saying "BSV does not scale" and Ayre firing back that "this [conversation] is stupid" and various BSV and Ethereum proponents weighing in.

The CEO of Dragonchain Joe Roets was inspired to publish a blog mail service in support of both blockchain'southward open source philosophy and the patent system. Dragonchain DApp Eternal also immortalized Buterin's comments on the Dragonchain blockchain, where it can never exist deleted or censored.

Why is nChain and then eager to patent?

President of the Bitcoin Association Jimmy Nguyen — a one-time nChain CEO —  said in March the actual number of patents filed had simply just reached 666. He summed upward the fears of the blockchain customs on the bailiwick pretty well:

"If yous mind to the online trolls, Craig is hell-bent on patenting all of Bitcoin and the entire blockchain every bit function of his quest for earth domination"

But Nguyen, a one-time patent attorney, said it was only right that blockchain companies seek to patent their technologies:

"Like any sensible business organization, nosotros also similar to protect our investment by securing intellectual property rights when appropriate. With hard piece of work and great expense, nChain has produced what we believe is the world's largest and best quality blockchain patent portfolio in the world."

However Craig Wright told Micky in Feb that he'd launched the patent portfolio to gain control over the Bitcoin forks and altcoins:

"Basically information technology came downwards to if I want to actually … try and stop all the splits, forks and altcoin scams that are popping upwardly pretending to be blockchains, then the only way I could really think to exercise information technology was to start patenting."

Fundamental individuals in the cryptosphere such as Peter Mckormack, Roger Ver and CZ from Binance have all expressed concerns about nChain's patent portfolio.