Storing blockchain data in DNA 🧬💾 is one of the most futuristic technologies that could potentially solve the problem of long-term information storage.
How does it work?🤔
Scientists have learned to encode digital data into DNA molecules, as it has incredible storage density. One gram of DNA can hold about 215 petabytes of information (that's approximately 215 million gigabytes).😱
In 2019, a group of researchers was able to record the Bitcoin blockchain into a DNA molecule🏦➡️🧬, and then successfully retrieve the data. Unlike traditional media (hard drives, flash drives), DNA does not degrade over time and can be stored for thousands of years under the right conditions.
Why is this important?⚡️
✅Durability – regular servers fail over time, while DNA remains stable for thousands of years.
✅Minimal sizes – all the world's information can fit into a few kilograms of DNA.🤏
✅Impossibility of censorship – information recorded in DNA is practically indestructible, making it ideal for storing decentralized data.🔐
The future of technology🚀
Although currently the process of encoding and decoding DNA is very expensive💰, in the future it may become a new way to protect and store information, including blockchain. Perhaps one day our crypto wallets will be stored not on flash drives or in the cloud, but literally in our cells!😳
Sounds like fiction, but the technology is already real. Who knows, maybe in a few decades crypto will literally become part of us? 🤖🧬