- A participant asked whether high-capacity PROM chips are commercially available for the explicit purpose of storing data for 1,000 years; the HD-Rosetta (etched nickel or silicon wafer technology) was suggested as a proven long-term archival medium.  
- Veritas Genetics was noted to offer whole-genome sequencing at $1 k, but only at ~30× coverage, clarifying that yesterday’s widely circulated “$1 k genome” headline actually referred to de-novo sequencing rather than routine resequencing.  
- The paper “Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin” (eprint.iacr.org/2018/068) was shared, highlighting ongoing cryptographic work aimed at improving Bitcoin’s signature aggregation and scalability.  
- Greg Maxwell’s departure from Blockstream to focus full-time on open-source Bitcoin development was announced via the bitcoin-dev mailing list, signaling increased resources for protocol-level research.  
- Makeblock.com—a modular robotics and maker platform—was rediscovered and mentioned as a potential rapid-prototyping resource for biohacking or hardware-augmentation projects.