Medicinal Genomics Seeks to Put Cannabis on the Blockchain
Is it possible to put cannabis on the blockchain?
With one company, that’s exactly what’s taking place. Motherboard reports that Medicinal Genomics is creating a registered list of all cannabis genomes to be stored on the bitcoin blockchain. The purpose is to take any confusion out of marijuana purchases; MG wants to make sure every customer receives the strain they’ve set out to purchase, as each type can have varying effects on patients.
“The Bitcoin blockchain has been going since 2009, and its security is in its proof of work,” says CSO of MG Kevin McKernan. “If, for any reason, we ever got shut down, all the people in the community that have the sequence files we gave them could recreate our database. I think that’s important for the cannabis field. If we ever want to figure out the mitochondrial Eve of cannabis, it can’t exist in a centralized database...
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