WorldCoin, otherwise known as Sam Altman’s other other side hustle besides OpenAI, is doubling down on emerging markets despite the blistering criticism that his project (*cough* scam) is an invasion of privacy and that he is only targeting emerging markets because they don’t have the regulatory laws to protect their citizens.
So clearly you can see I’m not a fan of this idea. While it sounds noble, scanning people’s eyes to confirm their identity and giving them WorldCoins that they can then spend and have confidence in the identity they are doing business with, I just don’t trust a crypto company to keep people’s retina scans private and secure when nothing in the history of crypto has ever given people confidence in its security or the moral character of the people behind it.
Worldcoin doubles down on emerging markets amid wider criticism