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Angus Berwick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
64 total appearances

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The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

There was also quite a lot of excitement about it, in part because people were able to receive these payouts of the cryptocurrency, which they could then swap for actual cash.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

There was also quite a lot of excitement about it, in part because people were able to receive these payouts of the cryptocurrency, which they could then swap for actual cash.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

There was also quite a lot of excitement about it, in part because people were able to receive these payouts of the cryptocurrency, which they could then swap for actual cash.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They were kind of caught off guard and were learning that there were troops of orb operators heading through their communities with the orbs in tow.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They were kind of caught off guard and were learning that there were troops of orb operators heading through their communities with the orbs in tow.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They were kind of caught off guard and were learning that there were troops of orb operators heading through their communities with the orbs in tow.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

The main concerns has been that, you know, effectively you could potentially have a private company collecting very kind of sensitive biometric data of people all around the world. And if a database like that could ever be compromised, that would expose a lot of very sensitive data. biometric data.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

The main concerns has been that, you know, effectively you could potentially have a private company collecting very kind of sensitive biometric data of people all around the world. And if a database like that could ever be compromised, that would expose a lot of very sensitive data. biometric data.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

The main concerns has been that, you know, effectively you could potentially have a private company collecting very kind of sensitive biometric data of people all around the world. And if a database like that could ever be compromised, that would expose a lot of very sensitive data. biometric data.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

And I think the problem with biometric data, unlike, you know, for instance, like a passport is, you know, once an image of my iris, once that that's been kind of released publicly, I can't like get another one. You can't change your iris. So you're kind of now perpetually vulnerable to identity theft.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

And I think the problem with biometric data, unlike, you know, for instance, like a passport is, you know, once an image of my iris, once that that's been kind of released publicly, I can't like get another one. You can't change your iris. So you're kind of now perpetually vulnerable to identity theft.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

And I think the problem with biometric data, unlike, you know, for instance, like a passport is, you know, once an image of my iris, once that that's been kind of released publicly, I can't like get another one. You can't change your iris. So you're kind of now perpetually vulnerable to identity theft.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

What's changed in the United States is the return of Donald Trump and his full-throated embrace of crypto. So I think they now feel that they're not exposed to the legal dangers that they could have faced under the Biden administration. And they can now start scanning irises and issuing WLD cryptocurrency, confident that they won't be obstructed. I think that they plan to expand in the U.S.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

What's changed in the United States is the return of Donald Trump and his full-throated embrace of crypto. So I think they now feel that they're not exposed to the legal dangers that they could have faced under the Biden administration. And they can now start scanning irises and issuing WLD cryptocurrency, confident that they won't be obstructed. I think that they plan to expand in the U.S.