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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token to launch Monday (www.semafor.com)
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The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality.

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The token economics — a breakdown of how the tokens will be distributed — will be made public Monday, the people said.

Tools for Humanity has offered people around the world free Worldcoin tokens, called “WLD,” in exchange for scanning their irises with a device called “The Orb.” The iris scans ensure that each person can have only one Worldcoin ID.

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[–] 36 points 3 years ago*

They're not even launching in the USA because the SEC might kick their shit in. This is basically an overcomplicated scheme to harvest biometric data from impoverished foreigners. There's already been fraudulent signups from people trying to exploit the world's poor. It's dumb AF.

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