I’m getting up to speed on it. Not sure what to think yet. At present, it looks like Steve is using the patent to protect people (upstream customers) being sued by Cursoe under a patent they filed. But definitely a situation that merits watching. Defensive patenting is a legitimate strategy, and for now, that seems to be Upstream’s play against Crusoe.

Full disclosure: Distributed Hash & CryptoCloaks filed a joint patent on using shrouds in a large scale (not home) mining environment. For the same reason, so that someone can’t try to patent it and block us and try to cover home use too. (Home use is disclosed as a prior art use in our application)

I fully expect to be held to account if we misuse it.