Bitcoin is an asset that can be stored “anywhere”; you need a private key to access your wallet, so a group is trying to cross the line, desiring to put Bitcoin in the DNA of mice.
According to Vice, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) wants to invest in genetic engineering technology to get mouse DNA to carry bitcoins, an idea that seems absurd.
Surprisingly, the person who created the project, BitMouseDao, is not a geneticist but an anonymous artist who said he came up with the idea while lying in bed waiting to fall asleep. The artist even wrote down the idea and began to ponder its possibilities.
“For a few weeks, I started researching whether it was possible to do this experiment. I was excited to imagine how this could affect us in the future.”
Inspired by the work of Eduardo Kac, the team behind BitMouseDAO believes it will be “really cool” to put money literally inside a live animal (to some, the idea doesn’t sound remarkable, just bizarre).
“We have tied the value of the mouse directly to Bitcoin, and it will fluctuate with the daily value of Bitcoin; maybe in ten years it will be worth $100 million, or maybe it will be worth nothing.”
The BitMouseDAO team is also trying to create an aura of mystery regarding their identity, stating that “At this point, we prefer to be identified as a country less, genderless group. In this project, we are just the members of BitMouseDAO.”
Vice Writes:
“How would one accomplish the task of genetically engineering a mouse so that it carries Bitcoin? The post mentions two possibilities for how it might achieve this goal. First, BitMouseDAO plans to use a cold wallet to generate a private key offline. Purchased bitcoins will then be pumped into this wallet.
Then, the tricky part is editing the mouse’s genetic code to carry the private key that controls the bitcoins. The plan is to work with a company to translate the key into a corresponding ATGC sequence of DNA and encode it into the mouse during fertilization.
Once the mouse has the private key encoded in its DNA via genetic engineering, then BitMouseDAO envisions that its children will, too.”
Perhaps saving a Bitcoin wallet key into a mouse’s DNA using genetic engineering is possible. Still, there is no practicality usefulness in this idea, and it is much more of an experimental artistic vision than any attempt to create something beneficial.
Fortunately, giving a little hope about the sanity of the crypto market these days, the idea has hardly interested anyone. So far, only four people have invested in BitMouseDAO, leaving it far from the goal of getting bitcoins into mouse DNA.
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