Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy? More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends’ Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them. BY STAVROULA PABST “No one told me what they’ll do with my eye…I did this out of need.” Olga de León, Buenos Aires Resident, to Rest of World Want $50 worth of cryptocurrency? Scan your irises with one of Worldcoin’s orbs and it’s yours. Such is Worldcoin’s (rather odd) elevator pitch to the public, which has subsequently rolled out its iris-scanning orbs to 38 countries worldwide. Worldcoin Orbs ( Source ) Launched in mid-2023 and described by founder Sam Altman upon launch as “a global financial and identity network based on proof of personhood,” Worldcoin has made a big splash in its efforts to grow an identity and finance network using...