The man who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin is reportedly attempting to secure his intellectual property via a host of new patent filings. Australian Craig Wright, who claims to be bitcoin founder “Satoshi Nakamoto,” has now filed at least 50 patent applications via Britain’s EITC Holdings Ltd.

“It looks like he is trying to patent the fundamental building blocks of any blockchain, cryptocurrency, or distributed ledger system,” Reuters consultant Antony Lewis says.

The blockchain is the decentralized public record of all transactions that is at the core of the bitcoin currency.

A number of startups and financial institutions have been investing heavily in technology that utilizes the blockchain framework that bitcoin made so famous. If Wright gets his way, these projects may soon be derailed.

Wright himself has declined to comment on the patent filings.

Earlier this year, the 45-year-old Wright stepped…

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