Quote from: murgut on September 08, 2018, 09:54:45 PM

Quote from: wookie25 on September 08, 2018, 09:36:32 PM

I am for the camp that majority of the population does not need and should not have their DNA sequenced and certainly not put onto the blockchain. The financial cost and personal + ethical risks of sequencing everyone's dna is too high for the little benefit at this current era of corporate medicine. One can argue that putting personal information on the blockchain gives the owner security and privacy. But this is too early in blockchain, the user interface is still to technical for the majority of consumers and will cause leakage/loss of data and privacy.

this is an interesting point. a lot of us here are super-paranoid and would never give such info about us...but hey..this is just the begining...who knows what the future will bring us ?

I agree. Tech and evolution is about trying and failing and trying and maybe succeeding someday. I am both in the healthcare field and research field, I can say easily that less than 1% of my patients need/have their DNA sequenced, the ones that do have such serious illnesses that it's crippling. There's money to be made in enticing the general population to find out about potential illnesses, but that's too big a risk. Currently, the cost is too high for mass consumerism, but that's where capitalism comes in and tries to mass market, increase demand and price will go down. That said, I still think that looking at where we are in knowledge of genetics, it is not worth the risk of DNA sequencing and placing it on a public chain.