HashFly Browser Experiment Tests Fruit Fly Brain Model for Bitcoin Hashing

This is less about Bitcoin mining economics than about whether biological neural models can be made useful for deterministic, verifiable computation — a category where GPUs and ASICs have dominated precisely because they are predictable. A fruit fly brain model is an odd fit for hashing, which rewards raw throughput rather than adaptive behavior, so the interesting question is what the experiment is actually measuring. The claimed efficiency edge rests on a hypothetical biological implementation, not the browser demo, which means the real test is whether anyone can build and benchmark that version.