Simulated Fly Brain Makes Profit in Bitcoin Trading Experiment

A simulated fruit-fly brain has made a profit in a Bitcoin trading experiment. Alex Wormuth, a software engineer at Coinbase, created the digital simulation based on a fruit fly's neural wiring and gave it $100 to trade Bitcoin.

The system's trading decisions are based on neural activity, and after one day, the fly was up $1. The experiment, dubbed 'Stonkfly,' connects an extremely complex simulation of an adult male fruit fly's nervous system to Bitcoin price data and Coinbase.

The simulated fly takes public BTC-USDC market data from Coinbase and converts it into an RGB visual representation, which is then fed into thousands of simulated sensory inputs that correspond to neurons in the visual system of the insect.