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Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by the sign-up bonuses. Relatively few people were familiar with the goals of the project.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Valid point, that's what makes it even more dystopian. The most in your face example of "you have to be able to afford privacy".