Google's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of concept — FutureBit says real organ

Playing Doom, day trading, flying drones, now cryptomining: is there anything the digitized fly brain is incapable of? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A project claimed to represent “the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain” has gone live. Yes, this is a cryptomining project that leans on the fruit fly connectome recently shared by Google. FutureBit, the company behind the Apollo series of ASIC miners, introduced the world to its HashFly this week. However, HashFly is merely a proof of concept for now. Introducing HashFly...the first organic neuron bitcoin miner based on the fly brain. Fun fact if this could be scaled on real organic neurons, it would hash at ~ 1 watt per terahash...10x the efficiency of the best silicon 3nm ASICs! pic.twitter.com/T2qxBb7XQRSeptember 13, 2026 If you open the dedicated HashFly site, you can also participate in this agitation of fruit fly brains in the (vain) hope of a crypto payout. I clicked the 'Mine' button and left it running for an hour, for science, and periodically flipped back to the tab to see the gently rotating fly brain’s neuron traces firing. Looking at the website overlay, one can see the web app represents “2,914 traces firing” within the fly’s brain. It is worth mentioning that this figure is just a small subset of the full 165,122 reconstructed neurons in the MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome. We understand that FutureBit’s HashFly focu