NOTE 6. NOTES PAYABLE

Our notes payable consisted of the following:


		September 30,		December 31
		2019		2018
2019 12% Notes	$	1,506,000	$	–
8.5% Notes		–		6,849,000
SBI Note		855,000		–
Unamortized debt discount		(110,406)		(1,575,094)
		2,250,594		5,273,906
Less: Current portion		(2,250,594)		(5,273,906)
Long-term portion	$	–	$	–

2019 12% Notes

In September 2019, we completed a private placement with certain accredited investors pursuant to (a) a senior unsecured promissory note, bearing interest at 12% payable quarterly, with principal due October 31, 2020, with an option for the holder to extend the due date to October 31, 2021 (“2019 12% Notes”) and (b) warrants with an exercise price of $1.30 per share and a life of 1.1 years; however, if we prepay at any time the life extends to October 31, 2022 (“2019 12% Warrants”) (combined the “2019 12% Agreements”). We may prepay the 2019 12% Notes at any time, but in any event must pay at least one year of interest.

We issued an aggregate of $1,506,000 under the 2019 12% Notes and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,506,000 shares of common stock. $400,000 was received in cash and $1,106,000 from modifying the outstanding principal under the 8.5% Notes; see 8.5% Notes below. The change in terms of the 8.5% Notes is treated as a debt extinguishment and the fair value of the warrants of $298,500 is included in our condensed consolidated statement of operations and as additional paid-in capital.

The relative fair value of the 2019 12% Warrants was recorded as a debt discount and additional paid-in capital of $93,500. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, amortization of debt discount includes $2,297. The 2019 12% Notes are otherwise treated as conventional debt.

For purposes of determining the loss on extinguishment of debt and the debt discount, the underlying assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model to determine the fair value of the 2019 12% Warrants were:


Current stock price	$ 0.82 - 0.92
Exercise price	$ 1.30
Risk-free interest rate	1.63 - 1.68 %
Expected dividend yield	–
Expected term (in years)	1.10
Expected volatility	124 %

8.5% Notes

In April 2018, we completed a $7,500,000 private placement pursuant to a promissory note (“8.5% Notes”) and warrant purchase agreement (the “8.5% Agreement”) with certain accredited investors, bearing interest at 8.5%, with principal due May 1, 2019, and interest payable quarterly. During the second quarter this note was extended to be due June 1, 2019. On June 6, 2019, we made payments of approximately $5.7 million, leaving approximately $1.1 million outstanding. In the event of default, the interest rate increases to 18%. The 8.5% Notes are collateralized by a security interest in substantially all of our assets. We may prepay the 8.5% Notes at any time, but in any event must pay at least one year of interest. In September 2019, we modified the debt agreement into the 2019 12% Notes.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the 8.5% Agreement, each investor was granted fully-vested warrants equal to their note principal times 80%, or six million warrants, with an exercise price of $2.35 per share and a life of two years (the “8.5% Warrants”). Should we issue any equity-based instruments at a price lower than the exercise price(s) of the 8.5% Warrants, other than under our Incentive Plan (as defined below), the exercise price(s) of the 8.5% Warrants will be adjusted to the lower price. If the shares underlying the 8.5% Warrants were not registered for resale on a registration statement within six months, we would have issued an additional warrant to each purchaser at the same exercise price for one-half of the shares covered by the initial 8.5% Warrants. A registration statement related to the 8.5% Warrants was declared effective on June 5, 2018. We may call the 8.5% Warrants at $0.01 per share if our stock trades above $8.00 per share for 15 consecutive days. The 8.5% Warrants may be exercised at the option of the holder by paying cash or by applying the amount due under the 8.5% Notes as consideration.

We received $7,500,000 of cash for issuing the 8.5% Notes. The relative fair value of the 8.5% Warrants was recorded as a debt discount and additional paid-in capital of $5,366,000. For the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, amortization of debt discount includes $0 and $1,013,261. For the Nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, amortization of debt discount expense was $1,575,094 and $1,457,178, respectively, from the 8.5% Notes. The 8.5% Notes are otherwise treated as conventional debt.

For purposes of determining the debt discount, the underlying assumptions used in the binomial lattice model to determine the fair value of the 8.5% Warrants as of April 2018, were:


Current stock price	$ 4.18
Exercise price	$ 2.35
Risk-free interest rate	2.46 %
Expected dividend yield	–
Expected term (in years)	2.0
Expected volatility	134 %
Number of iterations	5

SBI Debt

In July 2019, we completed a $855,000 private placement pursuant to a promissory note (“SBI Note”) with a certain accredited investor, bearing interest at 10%, with principal due October 17, 2019, and interest due at maturity. On October 18, 2019, the maturity date was extended to November 15, 2019, in exchange for 50,000 options to purchase shares of our common stock, with an exercise price of $1.00 per share and an exercise period of two years from date of grant.

We received $755,000 of cash for issuing the SBI Note and the difference between the cash received and the principal amount was recorded as a debt discount of $100,000. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 amortization of debt discount includes $80,797.