Information, DNA, Bitcoin, Qabalah and Art
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/
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Thank you that is very kind of ya'll. ;D
Wow, this is super interesting! Going to follow the links!
You are one of the few people following me that would be interested in this post where various obscure interests intersect.
How this is not interesting to others is beyond me! I appreciate posts like this.
Four upvotes so far... 23 views. Haha.
Definitely should share this and promote on Steemit chat!
A very interesting connection of the artistic and the scientific theme. You might get more feedback, if you fine tune the tags a bit. In my experience and humble opinion, people looking at posts in "bitcoin" are looking for financial information...
Your comment inspired me to promote this post.
Thanks. :)
The area between the sin and cos looks like yod -
Very cool. I am studying the Zohar.
That is awesome! I would love to see future posts on it. I have not studied the Zohar yet, but I have read numerous other ancient Hebrew texts.
Bahir and Sefer yetzirah
I have read those. Has your world been rocked by The Nag Hammadhi Library yet? Lot of information on the feminine aspect of divinity there. Even The Gospel of Mary where pages have been tragically torn out because it was just too many truth bombs for humanity.
Yes. Absolutely. My favourite Gospel (and scripture) of any type is the Gospel of Thomas, followed closely by the Isha Upanishad.
The Gospel of Thomas is my favorite too!
I have not read the Isha Upanishad yet. I wonder what Isha means in Sanskrit. In Hebrew, Aishah (aleph yod shin heh) means Woman, Aish (aleph yod shin) mean fire or man.
Yes ... in places like India they call Jesus "Isha" and Issa" and it also means "Lord"
Woooow. That does not surprise me. Interesting to see how different traditions connect in the etymology.
Eventually we will recover all of these works in their entirety and many more .... writings from the time that Jesus (Yeshu ha Notzri) walked in Galilee and Jerusalem.
I hope so!
I suppose a number of them are archived and hidden away at the Vatican and other private collections.
Love the Bahir and Sefer Yetzirah.