PhD Student Wins 1 Bitcoin For Cracking DNA Code Challenge

A young PhD student has won 1 bitcoin by cracking a code in a tube of DNA - a challenge created at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos. University of Antwerp doctoral student Sander Wuyts successfully solved the DNA Storage Bitcoin Challenge before the deadline set by its creator, European Bioinformatics Institute professor Nick Goldman.
“Goldman was still willing to send me a tube of DNA,” Wuyts recounts in an accompanying release about how he only decided to enter at the end of 2017 after seeing a tweet from the well-known British scientist. “The DNA contained instructions on how to claim the bitcoin, the logo of the European Bioinformatics Institute, a drawing of James Joyce and a few other things.”

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