Sam Altman has a new startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth. But first, it wants to scan everybody’s eyeballs.
Altman, the former head of the Silicon Valley business incubator Y Combinator , is one of three founders of the company Worldcoin. Among the many parts of its plan, Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device that would scan a person’s iris to construct a unique personal identifier.
The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz , the venture capital arm of Coinbase Global Inc. , LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Day One Ventures . […]
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