The battle over the future of bitcoin

Billed as the future of democratized, digital money, the currency is now at the center of a conflict over how to develop technologies behind the system

The bitcoin world this week learned its absentee father might be Craig Wright, an Australian entrepreneur with nice suits and well-combed hair who claims he invented the digital currency.

Wright's appearance complicates an already vicious custody battle. His claimed brainchild bitcoin - long billed as the future of democratized, digital money - is at the center of an ideological conflict over how to develop the technologies behind the system.