Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman of Open AI has worked with Elon Musk, and Elon Musk has plans to turn Twitter into the X everything app; digital ID, finance, vaccine passports and medical records…. So Worldcoin has over $100 million in capital invested, and already using their orb to scan eyeballs and get biometric iris hashes for their cryptocurrency. Your iris hash being your digital ID that can then be loaded into a digital wallet. They started in poorer countries with giving away Worldcoin to people that sign up, but they’re supposedly getting traction in Spain and Portugal. Consequently, Worldcoin if successful could be rolled into Twitter or the X everything app. There is probably jockeying on who can come up with the best technology and which one will catch on with the masses, but it is coming and you won’t be able to buy, sell or trade without it.
https://reclaimthenet.org/world-id-whether-you-like-it-or-not
By Didi Rankovic
World ID involves iris scanning.
Right now, it’s about those who voluntarily surrender their biometric data and receive “small sums” in Worldcoin in return for signing up to the World ID scheme.
But if Open AI CEO Sam Altman has anything to say about how Worldcoin, a project within his company, develops – everyone who wants to use the internet will eventually be required to use World ID – or “something like it.”
And right now, it seems that people in several southern European countries, notably Spain and Portugal, are simply itching to give away their iris biometrics as proof of identity and right to a cryptocurrency transfer wallet.
The signup process involves exposing your eyes to what’s known as Worldcoin’s Orb iris scanners. If reports are to be believed, the uptake in Spain, where the scheme first became available a year ago, is better than elsewhere – 150,000 participants in total, 20,000 new ones each day, and Barcelona is the place where a number of Orb scanners will be installed.
Portugal is not far behind, with 120,000 participants, and Germany is said to also be warming up to the project, ever since it started expanding two months ago.
All in all, some 2 million “biometric credentials” are now operated by Worldcoin. Why do people sign up for it?
“Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not,” Blania said.
“Whether you like it or not” are the “sweet” words everyone does (not) like to hear in connections with something like that, but that is what Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania decided to go for when describing the future.
In it, according to Blania, digital ID will be so prevalent that it will become inevitable, and there will be no escaping verifying the quality of being human (and likely, quite a few more things) online – if one wants to be online at all.
And whether one “likes it or not.” Blania links it to “progress” in “AI,” and predicts this will be happening as soon as within a couple of years.
Remember when you thought CAPTCHA were bad for your privacy, and for the way they effectively outsource your labor? Well now CAPTCHA’s are apparently considered outdated, as new iterations of “AI” is showing us the way to the brave new world.