For much of its existence, the cryptocurrency company nChain was governed by a golden rule of office politics: It was not a good idea to challenge Craig Steven Wright, the chief science officer.
At nChain’s London offices, Dr. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, was treated as a sort of philosopher king.
In 2017, Martin Sewell, an nChain employee, circulated a skeptical memo documenting technical errors in a series of papers that Dr. Wright had published about economics and computer science.
A manager called Mr. Sewell into his office and told him that he had to stop.
The deference to Dr. Wright “was just this extraordinary arrangement,” Mr. Sewell recalled.
Persons:
nChain, Craig Steven Wright, Wright, Wright’s, Martin Sewell, Sewell, Wright “, ” Mr, “, ”
Organizations:
Lamborghini
Locations:
nChain’s London, Australian