Graduate student microbiologist from Belgium
Sander Wuyts received the first bitcoin from the
DNA. To do this he had to solve a difficult puzzle
The story began three years ago, January 21 2015. Then, the scientist
Nick Goldman of the European bioinformatics Institute came up with an unusual mystery.
In the framework of the world economic forum in Davos, he told everyone concerned about the new way of storing digital information directly in the
DNA. As an example, he brought several flasks, each of which was encrypted single
bitcoin then only costing about $200.
The first person to unravel the code that you received everything. And if three years ago the amount was quite small, by the end of 2017, one Bitcoin was worth under $20 thousand. Then the puzzle
Goldman first learned of
Wuyts.
He asked one of those present then on the forum flask and promised to decrypt the secret key. From December to January with a break for the Christmas holidays – every day he spent in the lab, until he finally found the
answer.
Received bitcoin Wuyts is going to sell, and the most
valuable asset he calls the experience of decoding
DNA. Now Belgian scientists intend to do research in the field of information storage in biological media.
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