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Monday 29 March 2021

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.


Monday 15 March 2021

Mt Gox is Heating Up

Fortress are offering 80% on Rehabilitation claim values

Coinlab are still evil but may be relenting. 

https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/01/earlier-mtgox-payouts-coinlab.html?m=0

https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/02/mtgox-claim-calculator.html

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Simple Model for Import Export Payments On Chain

I import product for business all the time and i am often forced to use the existing and antiquated system It is a nightmare. Requires a lot of trust, its slow and expensive. Normally paying USD in advanced is the requirement and at the moment you may wait months for your product to arrive with little recourse if its not right. 

There is huge prospect for bitcoin here. Taking advantage of the transparent block chain is also an advantage as when you transfer through the bank you have to trust a long line of intermediates with your money and you never really know where it is when it in limbo. Suppliers are forced to accept unknown exchange rates. Shipping companies have to do a lot of documentation so that part payment plans can be enforced.

So you could make the one transfer in bitcoin it would be much easier and faster, but you can also do lots of new more advanced payment plans better. Here's the plan for a self managed deposit plan.

Three part payment plan for importers and exporters

Agree on the total value at the time of purchase order as measured in bitcoin. eg 20,000 sats This could b e for FOB or delivered pricing. 

Stage 1. Paid to start the order

Stage 2. At some stage when shipping documents are received, eg: Loading onto ship confirmed.

Stage 3. On receipt of goods in good condition at your shop.

On the purchase order a you print a public address where the full sum of funds are sent. this way the supplier knows that you have the money available and they can see on the block chain if you move it. Its easy to do this by just creating a new wallet address in your bitcoin wallet and it will only take one transaction. 

When you transfer the bitcoin from each stage you do it from this bitcoin address.

Its that easy. 

I should really do a flow chart process for you  like i did for my shipping or container tracking and quality assurance stickers in a previous post here.


 

Sunday 28 February 2021

Orange Pill - The Danger of Copernicus

Get your orange pill with your friendly long form Podcaster. Today they chatted about Copernicus and how he not only redefined the solar system, but also ralied against the state for printing money and developed concepts that led to Gresham Law. The concept that people will always use the most scarce money to store their wealth. Copernicus was a bitcoiner!

The inquisition could not stop Copernicis in the end and now the bitcoin price goes up like the earth orbits the sun.

Link Orange Pill OP30 2021


Wednesday 24 February 2021

Creating Privacy with Paper Wallets

Using paper wallets like cash adds a great layer anominity to bitcoin. #lowtechsolutions

Now you just need to find an all offline computer and dot matrix printer to make them.

Monday 22 February 2021

Overtake Elon

The prospect of overtaking the new richest man in the world seems so impossible, his financial rise so untenable, however if you just consider bitcoin and what percentage of your wealth you have in it, you may just be able to ti catch up or get ahead of him. If bitcoin takes over everything, as it seems to  continues to do, then at some stage, all that matters is your satoshis.

Right now we could assume that all Elon bitcoin is in Tesla where they recently bought 1.5 billion worth, approx. 42,000 coins (less than micro strategy have bought for half the money just months before). Elon owns 20.7% of Tesla and that is pretty well his whole net worth at 150 billion. So we can say he has about 1.5% of his net worth in bitcoin. To catch up to him you just need to put more than 1.5% of your own in. To overtake him you just need 630 bitcoin, its a lot but its not so far as the hundress of billions of usd.

If you act now bitcoin can close the wealth gap and bring us closer together. 

Saturday 13 February 2021

New World Wizards

The bitcoin future is a fantastic one where kings and queens rule the lands only at the relaxed acceptance of the wizards.

These crypto wizards do not profess to beeing wizards and are not seen in public. They have a deep understanding of bitcoin in particular and have practical coding skills which they often experiment with. They can be quite private and are mostly only seen in character anonymously online.

The wizards heave specialties, dark wizards  light wizards and their magic is through "sufficiently advanced technology". They are also quite heavy into their philosophy and physics. You may even know one without knowing.