I just watched 20-minutes into that video and I'm impressed. I like the direction that computing technology is headed and I see a very bright future for bitcoin indeed. Bitcoin is the wave of the future and I'm happy to see great minds adopting the concept of cryptography into digital currency. I wish I had a DNA sequencer to handle the task , and a DNA sample of course
This offer is only valid because it is not FREE. I doubt that even 1 person in a 10.000.000 has that piece of equipment needed for this service.
And if you have something sophisticated like this you probably don't care about 1 bitcoin because you are rich already.
That is not true. The only problem here is, that you must gain access to the DNA-sample. The sequencing is the least problem.
DNA sequencing is a standard problem and done daily by biologists. They either have a DNA-sequencing machine in their lab or they know the corresponding service provider for sequencing. Using a service provider, the sample would be sent to the service and, some days later, one would get a message, that the sequence is available online. Those services are not restricted to academia.
https://www.nucleics.com/DNA_sequencing_support/sequencing-service-choosing.htmlThe question is the price for a sample of a sequence with, lets say, around 128 base pairs for the 256 bit private key (each base encodes 2 bits since there are four different bases, A,C,G and T, in contrast to the binary code with 0 and 1). Actually, this could be done quite easily by a PhD-student or similar during their usual work.
That someone earns this bitcoin is still not very likely. First you must be a biologist so that you know how to handle DNA and stuff. Scientists are often (but not all!) "Fachidioten" (Nerd is not the correct term). That is, either they know their stuff, but they do not know bitcoin, or they know bitcoin but are no scientist. It is right, those people are often financially secured (or at least they think they are). Second, as mentioned, the biologist must know bitcoin so that he/she can import and export private keys. And third, he/she must almost be a computer scientist being able converting the DNA-sequence to bits, then to bytes and then to the corresponding string which involves the usage of the "black window". Biologists hate the "black window", they want fancy GUIs.
