Can a Fruit Fly Brain Mine Bitcoin? FutureBit and FlyMiner Test Biological Hashing
- —HashFly simulates 2,914 neural pathways from a fruit fly brain for simplified SHA-256 hashing
- —FutureBit estimates living neurons could hash at ~1 watt per terahash, 10x more efficient than 3nm ASICs
- —FlyMiner uses 139,255 neurons and 16.8 million connections, reaching up to 700,000 attempts per second
- —For comparison, FutureBit's Apollo III ASIC miner reaches 18 terahashes per second
Why it matters: The experiment highlights growing interest in biological computing for mining, though it remains far from challenging ASIC manufacturers.
Source: Decrypt