Notes Payable Disclosure | (7) Notes Payable As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company had the following note payable obligations: March 31, 2022 December 31 2021 Convertible debenture issued to an accredited investor on August 4, 2021, due May 1, 2022 in principal amount of $1,941,176, original issue discount of 15%, convertible at option of investor into a total of 194,118 shares of common stock at $10.00 per share and automatically convertible at 25% discount to the price per share of common stock in a qualified offering (net of unamortized debt discount of $221,100 as of March 31, 2022). $ 1,720,076 $ 1,075,048 Convertible promissory notes issued to an accredited investors on November 15, 2019, maturing in 5 years, accruing interest at 5% per annum, convertible into common stock at $1.25 per share. 150,000 150,000 Unsecured advances received from two officers in May through August 2021, accruing interest at 1% per annum, payable on demand. 260,000 260,000 Other short term notes issued to various affiliates of the former owners of Power Blockchain for acquisition of Treasury Stock, computers and equipment, and working capital financing, at stated interest rates of 10%. Amended on November 15, 2019, to mature in one year and to be convertible into common stock at $1.25 per share. 48,386 48,386 Promissory note issued to an independent director on January 28, 2022, accruing interest at approximately 18% per annum, due on January 28, 2023 400,000 - Promissory note issued to an institutional investor on March 8, 2022, accruing interest at approximately 8% per annum, due on March 8, 2023 197,000 - Total notes payable $ 2,775,462 $ 1,533,434 Future maturities of notes payable as of March 31, 2022, without taking into account the unamortized debt discount, are as follows: Year ending March 31, 2023 $ 2,846,562 Year ending March 31, 2024 - Year ending March 31, 2025 150,000 $ 2,996,562 On August 4, 2021, the Company closed a short-term bridge loan with an institutional investor in the gross amount of $1,941,176. The closing of this bridge loan resulted in net proceeds to the Company of $1,650,000, after deducting the 15% original issue discount, which the Company is accreting as a non-cash charge to interest expense over the term of the loan. We recorded amortization on this original issue discount for the period from August 4, 2021 to March 31, 2022, in the cumulative amount of $258,823. The bridge loan is in the form of a convertible debenture with a maturity date in May 2022 or earlier upon the closing of a public offering of common stock and/or common stock equivalents which results in the listing of the Company’s common stock on a national securities exchange (including Nasdaq). Due to unforeseen delays experienced in our planned public offering of common stock on a national exchange, we recently reached an agreement in principle with the institutional investor for an extension and expansion of borrowings under this bridge loan, based on terms that are yet to be agreed upon. The debenture may not be prepaid without the prior written consent of the investor and does not accrue interest, except upon the occurrence of an event of default, at which time the amount owed accrues interest at the rate of 18% per annum, until paid in full. While the debenture is outstanding, the Company is prohibited from incurring additional indebtedness, repurchasing its securities or repaying certain of its indebtedness, paying cash dividends or other distributions on equity securities, other than pursuant to certain limited exceptions. The debenture is convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at the lower of: (a) (b) The conversion of the debenture is subject to a beneficial ownership limitation of 4.99%, preventing such conversion by the holder thereof, if such exercise would result in such holder and its affiliates, exceeding ownership of 4.99% of our common stock, which percentage may be increased to up to 9.99%, with at least 61 days prior written notice by the holder thereof. In accounting for this debenture, the Company has early adopted the provisions of ASU 2020-06, Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging-Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity In conjunction with the convertible debenture, we granted the investor five-year warrants to purchase a total of 194,118 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $10.00 per share. Such warrants have cashless exercise rights if when exercised, and following the six-month anniversary of the closing of the offering, a registration statement for the underlying shares of common stock, is not effective. The exercise of the warrants is subject to a beneficial ownership limitation of 4.99%, preventing such exercise by the holder, if such exercise would result in such holder and its affiliates, exceeding ownership of 4.99% of our common stock, which percentage may be increased to up to 9.99% with at least 61 days prior written notice by the holder. The warrants contain anti-dilution rights such that if we issue, or are deemed to have issued, common stock at a price less than the then exercise price of the warrants, subject to certain exceptions, the exercise price of the warrants is automatically reduced to such lower value, and the number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise thereafter is adjusted proportionately so that the aggregate exercise price payable upon exercise of such warrants is the same prior to and after such reduction in exercise price. The warrants also require the Company, at the holder’s option, following a Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the agreement), to purchase the warrants from the holder in cash, based on the Black Scholes value (as calculated pursuant to the terms of the warrant). Additionally, we made a grant to the placement agent for the bridge loan of warrants to purchase a total of 9,706 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $10.00 per share, with substantially similar terms. All of these warrants are outstanding as of March 31, 2022. The Company accounted for the issuance of the warrants as a liability recorded at fair value in accordance with ASC 480-10. Using the Black Scholes model, the warrant liability was valued at issuance in the amount of $1,717,213. This was recorded as a discount to the convertible debt of $1,650,000 with the excess $67,213 expensed as interest. The Company accreted the debt discount to interest expense over the term of the convertible debenture. Debt discount amortization for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $627,047. As of March 31, 2022, we adjusted the warrant liability, to its then current fair value of $1,162,405, based on the Black Scholes model, resulting in a loss on warrant liability in the three months ended March 31, 2022 of $77,045 that was recorded in the statement of operations. Prior to obtaining the bridge loan noted above, the Company received unsecured cash advances from two of its officers from May through August 2021, in the net amount of $260,000. These related party advances accrue interest at the rate of 1% per annum and are payable on demand. Such advances are expected to be repaid out of the proceeds of an underwritten public offering of the Company’s equity securities in conjunction with the planned listing on a national exchange. However, no assurance can be given that the Company will be successful in achieving a closing of the underwritten public offering. In the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company closed two short-term loans from two different lenders in the total amount of $597,000. One of these loans was from an independent director of the Company in the amount of $400,000. Both of these loans were in the form of unsecured promissory notes bearing interest at rates of approximately 8-18% per annum with a maturity of one year. For the larger note with an independent director, the principal amount and accrued interest are due at maturity whereas for the smaller note with an institutional investor, monthly payments of principal and interest of $21,276 are required, beginning on May 16, 2022. In the event of a default by the Company on the payment terms of either note, the notes would be convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to the greater of (a) $0.001875 per share; and (b) 75% of the average closing bid price of the Company’s common stock, on the principal securities exchange or market where the Company’s common stock is then quoted or traded, for the five trading days immediately prior to the date of conversion. The Company expects to use the proceeds of these loans to meet its short-term working capital needs in anticipation of ultimately closing a qualified listing on a national exchange, of which there can be no assurance. Effective March 31, 2021 and August 31, 2020, the Company reached the necessary milestones to trigger the conversion of certain notes payable issued on various dates in 2018 and 2019, as amended, into shares of the Company’s common stock, at conversion prices of $1.25 to $3.25 per share, subject to a 4.99% ownership limitation for each beneficial owner of such notes. In conjunction with these conversions, the holders of notes with total principal and accrued interest balances in the aggregate amount of $794,358 converted their notes into 433,203 shares of common stock, effective March 31, 2021, and the holders of notes with total principal and accrued interest balances in the aggregate amount of $501,137 converted their notes into 400,910 shares of common stock, effective August 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2022, convertible notes payable in the amount of $174,685, plus accrued interest in the amount of $41,141, remain outstanding and are available to be subsequently converted into 172,661 shares of common stock, subject to the ownership limitation (see Note 9). Effective November 15, 2019, the following transactions took place in the Company’s notes payable: · · · outstanding and continue to accrue interest with deferral of the maturity dates being extended for one year or until the Company had raised an additional $500,000 of new equity securities, at which time, the principal and accrued interest was to be converted into common stock at a conversion price of $1.25 per share (of the total notes amended, notes in the amount of $708,150 have been converted into common stock through March 31, 2021 and 2022, as a result of such $500,000 equity raise threshold being met). The Company performed an analysis of both the newly issued convertible notes and the newly amended existing notes, which were formerly non-convertible, to determine whether there was a beneficial conversion feature and noted none. |