by Chris Black
It looks like the “biometric global ID” plot-thread is back in the news.
What a shocking surprise.
Commentary offered by Elizabeth Howcroft for Reuters::
Worldcoin has no problem attracting eyeballs. More than 2.2 million people have signed up, getting their irises scanned in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free crypto.
The new project from ChatGPT founder Sam Altman aims to create a blockchain-based “identity and financial network”. Its native coin WLD has kept a steady price between $2 and $2.50 since its launch on July 24, thus far spared the “pump-and-dump” trajectory of many new crypto tokens.
After the success of ChatGPT as the first real public AGI, it would not surprise me if the same people come up with the first crypto ID system.