Kary Oberbrunner explains the high cost and time burden of patenting ideas and describes discovering blockchain as a potentially cheaper alternative. He wrote a layperson book, Blockchain Life, to explain the technology to non-technical readers (including his parents) and summarizes blockchain simply as a global ledger.
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If we need to take every idea to a patent, oh my gosh, we're going to be spending a lot of time and a lot of money. So I thought, you know what, there's got to be a better way because who has, who has one to three years and 20k every time they come up with an idea? So I ran across this term called blockchain a few years ago and I thought, you know what, I don't even know what blockchain is. I don't even like what, what the heck are we talking about? I don't even know. But I like anything when I don't know the answer. I write a book. So I wrote a book called Blockchain Life. And I literally went deep into this journey and I wrote it for my 70 plus year old parents who are like, what are you even talking about? So I really broke it down into simple things, but the concept blew my mind because here's really the concept. Blockchain is simply a ledger that's global.