Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let it wander around a virtual world. Now another simulated fly nervous system is trading crypto.
Behold Stonkfly, the brainchild of Coinbase software engineer Alex Wormuth. His X post boasted: "I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin. Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase. Will the fly get rich?"
Well, all we can say is Alex should question his life choices. But really, more stupid things have happened this year, like the US president suggesting he could bring in the military to correct a misbehaving bond market.
Keen readers will recall that researchers...
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