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Or why Hal Finney was cryopreserved. :-)



In the future someone steals his frozen head to scan it and try to recover the Satoshi wallet keys...


in the real real far future you don't need his head, but maybe a single hair or a bone? Assuming every DNA cell keeps all memories or perhaps like a chicken running with a cutoff head maybe if his hands to be reconstructed, given enough time over a keyboard he would finally "twich" a password? Just thinking out loud...


What.

I don’t see any reason to believe this is remotely feasible, ever?


You have played too much assassin's creed. DNA determinism has not been realistic ever.


Assassin's Creed thing is more like ancestral memory. DNA determinism is more of a Dune thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_in_the_Dune...


You need to read a middle school biology textbook


Are you sure he's not cryptopreserved?


He couldn't upload himself to the blockchain because Ordinals hadn't been invented yet.




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