Building the world’s largest identity and financial network to serve as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone.
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Lots of skepticism, but now that this has launched — it'll be interesting to see if normies will embrace it and allow their retinas to be scanned into the blockchain for about $60... With generative AI, we're definitely going to need ways to distinguish between human and machine actors — but is this the right vehicle to achieve that outcome? It certainly isn't a flawless plan...!
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Wow, Worldcoin sounds like an incredibly promising solution! Building a large identity and financial network for everyone's benefit is truly revolutionary. Excited to see how this public utility will empower individuals globally 💪💙
As a technology anthropologist who's helped many companies bring software/hardware products to market, this is unlikely to succeed for several reasons. Growing mistrust of biometrics as a whole, the general market has zero trust for crypto right now, neither this hardware nor blockchain can scale at what would be needed at a societal level. I could go on.
It looks awesome, and it will be constructive for me. I would like to congratulate you on the launch.
Creating a financial and identity network that serves as a public utility? Fascinating! I'm eager to learn more. What have been some of the challenges you've faced in making this a reality?
I bought a bunch of the new-fangled Worldcoin. I say new-fangled, because I am the co-founder of the original Worldcoin. My WDC had lofty aspirations. Almost a dozen people backed us. We even had one guy in France comment on one of our threads. Just a guess, but Sam Altman seems to have a lot more engagement than we did. It's unclear where we went wrong.
I don't like it one bit. It reeks to the high heavens of data farming, biometrics farming etc. and if anyone capitulates for 60 bucks they would want to have themselves checked out. I hear you..but google and everyone else takes your data/biometrics etc.. a terrible argument, they're also crooks. The Worldcoin is BTC
The first time I needed a downvote button on PH. It's naive to think that AI will not be able to generate fake biometric data to fool systems like this. We need a decentralized reputation graph of public keys, and all content simply must be signed or assumed fake.
From the founder of the open source platform openai .... oh wait Well at least they launched on Bankless... Oh wait.