Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency co-founded by Sam Altman, launches with $25M from a16z and others and plans to develop an orb-shaped device to scan human eyeballs
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.
The former head of Y Combinator is launching a new cryptocurrency that will be distributed to every single person in the world. To get it you need to do a scan of your eyeball https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @ellenhuet and @GillianTan
@ellenhuet @GillianTan “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.”
Give the Silicon Valley elite access to your biometrics as a proof-of-identity. Seems like an anti-thesis of the crypto permission-less narrative, instead of protecting free access, it's designed to create new data moats for tech insiders https://www.bloomberg.com/...
At least 1x a week, I think about a conversation with @merbroussard who essentially asked: What if we *didn't* use technology for this? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
“The device is a silver-colored spherical gizmo the size of a basketball that can be carried around and used to scan people's irises in order to ascertain their unique identities” Reminder: SV's definition of ‘privacy’ is quite different than yours. https://twitter.com/...