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OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people’s eyeballs

Enlarge / Worldcoin’s “Orb,” a device that scans your eyeballs to verify that you’re a real human. reader comments 92 with A company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised $115 million for Worldcoin, a crypto coin project that scans users’ eyeballs in order “to establish an individual’s unique personhood.” In addition to leading the… Read More »

More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency

Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin’s “Orb” iris scanner. reader comments 127 with 78 posters participating, including story author Share this story More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates. Worldcoin has distributed… Read More »