Meet WorldCoin: How This Project Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs For Money

Meet WorldCoin: How This Project Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs For Money

According to a Bloomberg report, Sam Altman has a new startup and is looking to give everyone on earth free money, but there is a catch: you must let them scan your eyeballs. Altman was a former partner at Y Combinator, a “startup accelerator” platform that has helped launch thousands of companies. Altman left Y […]


Related News

Worldcoin Well Finds Its Funding

The Worldcoin community has become a project sponsor for The Water Project. A few weeks ago, I made a post about the troubles facing Worldcoin's Well Project. Although the Worldcoin community had raised enough money to pay for a new well in Africa through the Water Project, a price in the price of worldcoins led to that project actually only ended up with half of the $10,000 it needed to get started. To be fair, the collapse in the worldcoin price came at a time when pretty much all cryptocurrencies were falling in price, including bitcoins. After that setback, the Worldcoin community was....

Iris Scanning Worldcoin Idea Fuels Objections From Privacy Advocates — Snowde...

During the last few weeks, a project called Worldcoin has been the subject of numerous headlines and speculation. Worldcoin launched on October 21 and aims to be a universal basic income (UBI) crypto asset that gives free tokens to accounts that are verified with a biometric eye scan. The project has privacy advocates reeling and whistleblower Edward Snowden slammed the project’s creators and said “don’t catalogue eyeballs.” Worldcoin Turns Heads in the Crypto World as It Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs in Exchange for Free Crypto There’s a new....

‘Free coin to everyone’ project aims to make 1B crypto owners in 2 years

Backed by a16z and co-founded by Sam Altman, Worldcoin will give free crypto in exchange for an eye scan. Funded by crypto heavyweights, new crypto unicorn Worldcoin revealed its plan to let everyone claim free coins to accelerate global crypto adoption.Providing the world population with free cryptocurrency sounds like a moonshot project, but $25 million in backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, confirmation1, Blockchange and Day One Ventures, and a valuation of $1 billion adds some weight to the Worldcoin project. Co-founded by Alex Blania, Sam Altman and Max Novendstern,....

Worldcoin Community Funds Well System in Africa

The Worldcoin community has become a project sponsor for The Water Project. Less than a week after the Dogecoin community made headlines for donating $30,000 worth of dogecoins to the Jamaican bobsled team, the Worldcoin Foundation has decided to throw their hat into the crypto-charity ring. The foundation is creating the Worldcoin Initiative, which is said to be a series of relief efforts in various parts of the world. The first project in this new initiative is the Worldcoin Well, which was able to collect over 30,000 worldcoins in a single day. Sponsoring a Water Project. Worldcoin....

Worldcoin Price Crash Creates Problem for African Well Project

It seems the Vertcoin community wants to make up the difference. Update #2: The Noblecoin community has their own fundraiser through The Water Project, and it seems they convert everything to dollars as soon as possible. A few weeks ago, we reported that the Worldcoin community was able to raise over $10,000 worth of worldcoins in order to fund the development of a new well system in Africa. At this time, the funds are still in the hands of someone in the Worldcoin community, and they may not be able to use them for their intended purposes. The price of worldcoins has crashed in recent....