To make matters worse, their are people who write about Chaum&#x27;s techno-utopia that mention his patent fetish and those that don&#x27;t. I really do not understand how the author of the Wired article failed to mention any of the patent backstory. I do not care if it is ignorance, pandering, or something else, Wired should be embarrassed that an article titled &quot;The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War&quot; failed to mention the history of and&#x2F;or possibility of future patent problems.