Kevin McKernan

There's patents everywhere and it's a big mess and you couldn't really grow your company too large without, you know, myriads of other companies coming in and hitting you with their patents. And so when we approached the cannabis genome, we said, screw this, we're going to put the whole genome public before anyone has a chance to patent it. And at that time, I didn't understand Bitcoin.

There's patents everywhere and it's a big mess and you couldn't really grow your company too large without, you know, myriads of other companies coming in and hitting you with their patents. And so when we approached the cannabis genome, we said, screw this, we're going to put the whole genome public before anyone has a chance to patent it. And at that time, I didn't understand Bitcoin.

There's patents everywhere and it's a big mess and you couldn't really grow your company too large without, you know, myriads of other companies coming in and hitting you with their patents. And so when we approached the cannabis genome, we said, screw this, we're going to put the whole genome public before anyone has a chance to patent it. And at that time, I didn't understand Bitcoin.

patent to it and no one else can actually go and patent it yes it puts it puts in the public domain got it so um now oftentimes the uspto doesn't find cannabis content because a lot of cannabis content is forced to have like are you 21 or older to come into our website so they don't even crawl those sites this is for prior art um so there isn't a very good um preliminary search engine for this so what we did when we spoke to attorneys they said the best thing you can do

patent to it and no one else can actually go and patent it yes it puts it puts in the public domain got it so um now oftentimes the uspto doesn't find cannabis content because a lot of cannabis content is forced to have like are you 21 or older to come into our website so they don't even crawl those sites this is for prior art um so there isn't a very good um preliminary search engine for this so what we did when we spoke to attorneys they said the best thing you can do

patent to it and no one else can actually go and patent it yes it puts it puts in the public domain got it so um now oftentimes the uspto doesn't find cannabis content because a lot of cannabis content is forced to have like are you 21 or older to come into our website so they don't even crawl those sites this is for prior art um so there isn't a very good um preliminary search engine for this so what we did when we spoke to attorneys they said the best thing you can do

Now we know there's a better way to do this, but at the time it was submitted to the USPTO as a patent application and then abandoned it. That way it's in their database. They can't miss it. If they miss it, then if you ever have to go back and do a ex parte re-exam and show them, hey, look, it was in your database and you missed it, it's a really simple open and shut case.

Now we know there's a better way to do this, but at the time it was submitted to the USPTO as a patent application and then abandoned it. That way it's in their database. They can't miss it. If they miss it, then if you ever have to go back and do a ex parte re-exam and show them, hey, look, it was in your database and you missed it, it's a really simple open and shut case.

Now we know there's a better way to do this, but at the time it was submitted to the USPTO as a patent application and then abandoned it. That way it's in their database. They can't miss it. If they miss it, then if you ever have to go back and do a ex parte re-exam and show them, hey, look, it was in your database and you missed it, it's a really simple open and shut case.

Today, you don't need to do that. Today, you can basically publish the sequence online, put a fingerprint in the Bitcoin blockchain, and you've got proof of when it existed. The Bitcoin blockchain is a perfect timestamping system. It's difficult to take your stuff to a notary, if you will. The notary system in the United States is all federally run.

Today, you don't need to do that. Today, you can basically publish the sequence online, put a fingerprint in the Bitcoin blockchain, and you've got proof of when it existed. The Bitcoin blockchain is a perfect timestamping system. It's difficult to take your stuff to a notary, if you will. The notary system in the United States is all federally run.

Today, you don't need to do that. Today, you can basically publish the sequence online, put a fingerprint in the Bitcoin blockchain, and you've got proof of when it existed. The Bitcoin blockchain is a perfect timestamping system. It's difficult to take your stuff to a notary, if you will. The notary system in the United States is all federally run.

So you walk into a bank saying, hey, can you notarize my cannabis science? They'll be like, get out of here. This is federally legal. So how do you do that? How do you put it on the Bitcoin blockchain? It's a very simple thing. It sounds sophisticated. The whole sequence does not fit in a blockchain. Don't do that. No one wants that blockchain bloat. All you have to do is take a hash of the file.

So you walk into a bank saying, hey, can you notarize my cannabis science? They'll be like, get out of here. This is federally legal. So how do you do that? How do you put it on the Bitcoin blockchain? It's a very simple thing. It sounds sophisticated. The whole sequence does not fit in a blockchain. Don't do that. No one wants that blockchain bloat. All you have to do is take a hash of the file.

So you walk into a bank saying, hey, can you notarize my cannabis science? They'll be like, get out of here. This is federally legal. So how do you do that? How do you put it on the Bitcoin blockchain? It's a very simple thing. It sounds sophisticated. The whole sequence does not fit in a blockchain. Don't do that. No one wants that blockchain bloat. All you have to do is take a hash of the file.

So SHA-256 is a hashing algorithm that basically takes a fingerprint of a large document and spits out a particular length fingerprint of information. And it is – it's collision proof in that if you were to change one letter in that document, your hash will completely change. You will not get overlapping hashes. They're long enough that they're unique numbers in space, if you will.

So SHA-256 is a hashing algorithm that basically takes a fingerprint of a large document and spits out a particular length fingerprint of information. And it is – it's collision proof in that if you were to change one letter in that document, your hash will completely change. You will not get overlapping hashes. They're long enough that they're unique numbers in space, if you will.

So SHA-256 is a hashing algorithm that basically takes a fingerprint of a large document and spits out a particular length fingerprint of information. And it is – it's collision proof in that if you were to change one letter in that document, your hash will completely change. You will not get overlapping hashes. They're long enough that they're unique numbers in space, if you will.

They're unique in the universe. So you can take that number – And put that into the op return in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has this little function where an op return can fit a hash. It's almost like a note section in a transaction. And you can stuff that with a hash of the sequence information that you have for a given plant. So we were using that function.

They're unique in the universe. So you can take that number – And put that into the op return in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has this little function where an op return can fit a hash. It's almost like a note section in a transaction. And you can stuff that with a hash of the sequence information that you have for a given plant. So we were using that function.