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WEF, Bilderberg Group-Linked Project That Wants to Scan Your Eyeball for Crypto Launches

The Worldcoin project, which aims to establish a digital identity (World ID) by scanning your iris, is now live.

Worldcoin’s goal is to authenticate all humans online and create an “AI-funded UBI (universal basic income).”

“Worldcoin consists of a privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID) and, where laws allow, a digital currency (WLD) received simply for being human. We hope that, where the rules are less clear, such as in the U.S., steps will be taken so more people can benefit from both,” Worldcoin announced Monday.

“You can now download the World App, the first protocol-compatible wallet, and reserve your share. After visiting an Orb, a biometric verification device, you will receive a World ID. This lets you prove that you are a real and unique person online while remaining completely private. As the global distribution of Orbs is ramping up, you can find the closest one and book time to be verified with World App and at worldcoin.org,” Worldcoin continued.

Read the full announcement from co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman:

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Exchange your biometrics for crypto.

What could possibly go wrong with this trade?

Anyone who thinks your biometrics will remain private is incredibly naïve.

The creepy, sci-fi Orbs are now in 35+ cities and 20+ countries across five continents.

WATCH:

Worldcoin co-founder Alex Blania said in an interview with Coindesk Digital ID is coming ‘whether you like it or not.’

Shadowy Bilderberg Group Set To Meet Soon—Here’s Who’s Attending

Unsurprisingly, Worldcoin has ties to the World Economic Forum.

Worldcoin co-founder and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a WEF contributor.

From the WEF:

Sam Altman is president of Y Combinator and was the co-founder of Loopt, a location-based social networking app, which was part of YC's first batch of startups in 2005 and later acquired by Green Dot in 2012. Prior to taking over as Y Combinator's president, Sam was a part-time partner at Y Combinator. As an early innovator in mobile location services, Sam joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs on stage at WWDC 2008, presenting Loopt as one of the first applications in the iPhone App Store.

OpenAI was represented at the World Economic Forum's 2019 meeting in San Francisco, where the diabolical organization of global elites introduced an "AI Council."

From MIT Technology Review in 2019:

This week, AI experts, politicians, and CEOs will gather to ask an important question: Can the United States, China, or anyone else agree on how artificial intelligence should be used and controlled?

The World Economic Forum, the international organization that brings together the world’s rich and powerful to discuss global issues at Davos each year, will host the event in San Francisco.

The WEF will also announce the creation of an “AI Council” designed to find common ground on policy between nations that increasingly seem at odds over the power and the potential of AI and other emerging technologies

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One specific use of AI that seems destined to cause friction is surveillance. Civil rights groups in the US have pushed for greater regulation of face recognition in particular, and some cities have obliged, but the there is little resistance to this application in China.

“Different cultures have different values, and AI is a technology that can encode values,” says Jack Clark, who will attend the event on behalf of OpenAI, an AI company in San Francisco backed by big-name Silicon Valley investors. “I think it’s going to be challenging at first to agree on things like ‘What values should we encode into a system?’ from a global perspective.”

Sam Altman also attended this year's secretive, shadowy Bilderberg Group meeting.

Shadowy Bilderberg Group Set To Meet Soon—Here’s Who’s Attending

"Ethereum’s founder Vitalik just posted some of the major risks with this [Worldcoin]," Twitter user Crypto Tea wrote.

To put it simply, Worldcoin is a scheme to trick humans into giving up their biometrics for 'easy digital money.'

It's another slippery slope that would easily tread into a digital slave state, particularly in a cashless society.

Didn't scan your iris?

No money to pay for your food, water, and clothing.

TechCrunch has more:

As TechCrunch has previously noted, Worldcoin is perhaps one of the most audacious efforts to bribe the world to embrace their currency. The startup, founded by OpenAI CEO Altman and Alex Blania, wants to put a crypto wallet (and some of their currency) onto every human’s smartphone, but in order to do so they have to build a way to determine whether someone is a unique human.

Worldcoin, in the works for over three years, has been quietly signing up individuals in many countries, including India, giving those onboarding 25 Worldcoin tokens. But the journey so far hasn’t been very smooth. The project has received criticism for exploitative practices in poor countries. Between May 2021 and July 2023, more than 2 million individuals verified their World IDs at an Orb across more than 30 different countries, the startup said.

Worldcoin’s website outlines its key potential applications: fortifying incentive strategies like coupons and loyalty programs traditionally susceptible to fraud, combatting bots through identity confirmation, and facilitating a globally democratic governance mechanism.

Worldcoin is holding about 20% of all its tokens, which are not launching in the U.S. for now. For the first 15 years, the startup is capping the total supply to 10 billion “WLD” tokens, it said. (More on this below.) At launch on Monday, the maximum circulating supply of the token, which is ERC-20 based, is 143 million, Worldcoin writes in a whitepaper.

“If successful, we believe Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans for AI online while preserving private, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI,” said the statement in a statement.

Worldcoin is an “attempt at global scale alignment,” it said, prompting a jab from Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and no stranger to the world of cryptocurrency, who found it “cute.”


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