Have a listen to Episode 7 of the Bitcoinist podcast, featuring special guest Kevin McKernan, founder of the Cannabis Genome Project. The podcast is now available on iTunes as well as Stitcher, and gPodder. If you like what you hear, please leave a comment or review on iTunes or in the comments:
Join us as we discuss alternate uses of the BTC blockchain as a pedigree, IP managment, and marijuana strain verification platform, and future (non database) applications in the field of medicine. We also riff on gene patenting, tech buzzwords, deadly fungal infections from vaping, and just how hard it is to do cannabis research in the states.
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Next episode: we talk with Sinclair Skinner of Bitmari.com, about the state of finance and Bitcoin in Zimbabwe and the developing world, internet memes as hate symbols, encrypted chat platforms as data collection tools, the recent trend of trading photo-shopped digital playing cards among bitcoin pundits, heuristics for identifying crypto scams, neural network snobbery, and a wealth of other interesting trivia.
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Links
Cannabis Genome Project
Medicinal Genomics Related Links
http://www.kannapedia.net
http://www.courtagen.com
CannMed2016
http://www.medicinalgenomics.com/cannmed2016-videos/
Project CBD
https://www.projectcbd.org/article/kevin-mckernan-sequencing-cannabis-genome-video