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Selling a patent on Regional Blockchains
I recently got a US blockchain patent that you might be interested in. The patent is Blockchain and deep links for mobile apps #10,346,826. It was filed 28 July 2015 and awarded 9 July 2019.
The gist is simple. Regional blockchains. A current paradigm for any blockchain is that its nodes are everywhere. In as many countries as possible. So no single country can control it. But depending on the data held in the blockchain, a country might require the blockchain to be inside its borders. For example, if the blockchain holds sensitive health data about its citizens. Or maybe data on weapons development by military contractors.
Even if the country did not demand this, investors might. Perhaps to deliberately put the blockchain squarely under the jurisdiction of the country. In case you had not noticed, the blockchain/crypto field is infested with antigovernment sentiment, possibly even anarchist feelings. But there are some of you who might want your blockchain firm to be firmly compliant with your government. This jurisdictional issue is a feature, not a bug.
The patent describes, say, a Texas blockchain, a California blockchain, and a US southwest blockchain. The blockchains do not need to be regionally non-overlapping. The southwest blockchain could have nodes in Texas and California. Indeed the latter blockchain might…
