Live Forever in the Bitcoin Blockchain

The cost of immortality, the possibility to transcend time, depending on your philosophical perspective ,could now be measurable. If you believe the bitcoin blockchain can last forever then you just need to get your DNA sequenced and save your DNA in digital form  on the bitcoin blockchain. 

We have a few moral issues that we brush over here, the validity of DNA preservation and privacy along with the scarcity and abuse of blockspace, but lets not dwell on it. It costs only around $1000 to get your genome fully sequenced. So if you want this its not to hard. Finding a permanent secure database that you can rely on being around for ever and accessible for everyone is where the real challenge lies for those inclines on escaping a metaphorical oblivion.

The bitcoin blockchain is a permanent database for all, but it doesn't like to hold too much information. So firstly, to find out what it might cost and if it is possible, we need to know how many kb are needed to hold human DNA sequence? Well quite a lot, 725mb at most but thankfully this can be losslessly compressed to only 4mb using, our old friend clever cryptography. This still will not fit in one block, but it could be split over many with the details of the file locations detailed. With these data sizes you could get the data saved in a tidy little package on your birthday.

So saving your DNA on the bitcoin blockchain is feasible, but what will it cost? Considering the current rates and fee market dynamics you do currently need to be pretty flush with bitcoin to do this. If you had millions you could conceivably do it in around an hour. The cost in this case is not that predictable and could skyrocket. As a normal person however, if we tried to do it at the current kb transaction rate with a longer time frame and without disrupting the balance, it would cost say 0.0012 btc per Kb or 1.2 btc per MB. That's a grand total of around 4.8btc for the possibility of clone me into infinity, its a lot osf sats but not such a bad deal if you're trying to take over the world.