Don’t give Worldcoin a photo like this. Some of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley want to scan your eyeball. You almost certainly shouldn’t let them.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffmann, and major venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz are all backing a recently revealed plan by a company called Worldcoin, which mashes up three big ideas: It’s a cryptocurrency company, and it’s a Universal Basic Income project, and also it’s a biometric-scanning company. Worldcoin: It’s a coin for the world. If, first, the world will share its irises.
According to a recent report by Bloomberg , Worldcoin’s […]
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