Bitcoin and DNA. [1]
Interesting occurrence in the obscure world of cryptocurrency and DNA. In January 2015, Nick Goldman of the European Bioinformatics Institute did a presentation at the World Economics Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland on a new method to store digital information in DNA. The results of his findings were published in the science journal Nature and can be read here.[2]
At the end of his talk, he distributed test tubes containing samples of DNA that have been encoded with a message and bitcoin address and private key information and issued the following challenge: first person to decode the bitcoin information encoded in the sample of DNA takes possession of the Bitcoin. "We've bought a Bitcoin and encoded the information into DNA. You can follow the technical description of our method and sequence the sample, decode the Bitcoin. Whoever gets there first and decodes it gets the Bitcoin." [3]
Figures 1 and 2 are from an article [4] written by Dr. Goldman where he describes the encoding process. The ATCG fragments in the sample DNA correspond to a base-3 code (figure 1) which can be translated into binary text.
A few weeks ago, Sander Wuyts, a graduate student in microbiology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium decoded the DNA and claimed his bitcoin. You can read about his adventure here. [5]
This bit of news inspired me to create the following qabalistic piece:
The Hebrew letter yod represented by a segment of DNA... and even resembles yod. Nice bit of synchronicity that the ancient Hebrews ascribed the letter yod to correspond to the World of Aziluth; the world of Emanation, the world of causes, the world of raw information; the highest world in the Tree of Life.
Yod. A seed. A packet of information. A cause. DNA.
You? The effect.
Email me at zerotetrahedron369 at protonmail if you would be interested in purchasing this piece. First person to email me with intent to buy gets it for free. I take crypto. (Each piece is individually made; no two pieces are exactly alike.) 1000 copies will be made.
References
[1] "Belgian Student Completes the DNA Storage Bitcoin Challenge" https://themerkle.com/belgian-student-completes-the-dna-storage-bitcoin-challenge/
[2] "Towards Practical, High-Capacity, Low-Maintence, Information Storage in Synthesized DNA" http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3672958
[3] "Belgian PhD student decodes DNA and wins a Bitcoin" https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-releases/belgian-phd-student-decodes-dna-wins-bitcoin
[4] "Method for Encoding and Decoding Computer Files in DNA Fragments" https://www.ebi.ac.uk/sites/ebi.ac.uk/files/groups/goldman/file2features_2.0.pdf
[5] "From DNA to Bitcoin: How I Won the Davos DNA-storage Bitcion Challenge"
https://swuyts.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/from-dna-to-bitcoin-how-i-won-the-davos-bitcoin-challenge/