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What is World? (world.org)

submitted 2 days ago by Dogyote@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is this thing as sketchy as it seems? The organization seems to be positioning itself as a way to verify you're a real live human online, something about blockchain, doesn't store your data, etc. Does anyone know more about it? I'm interested in how they make money and/or who is funding this project. They say the right things but seem to be hiding who is supporting them.

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[–] leviathan@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So let me get this straight.. This is Altman's solution to Altman's problem..

this guy wants or wanted to create an Ai that can act, think and sound like a human (by stealing peoples work), and then he went (secretly mind you) to create this Worldcoin system for us to tell who's an Ai and who's a real human online, and guess how he's going to do it? browser cookies! nope.. 👉 Biometric data 👈

Prove you are a unique human, without revealing anything else about you

Yeah, right.. How do I do that? well find the nearest orb, that's all

Ok, ok.. But why would people want to give us their eyeballs? Aaahaa so we can pay them with our worthless token that will never be truly decentralized, because we control all the nodes

World Network is centered around a unique privacy-preserving global identity credential, known as World ID (“World ID”), and a new crypto asset, known as the Worldcoin token (“WLD”). Where available, owners of WLD tokens will be able to participate in guiding the governance of the Protocol and will contribute to the Project alongside a global community of developers, economists, technologists, and other interested individuals. The WLD token may also function as a means of making payments.

That's it.. this guy wants to build a surveillance blockchain, phew.. these tech billionaires man.. I tell you, they're really the real life villains..

People if you want to use a blockchain that you can actually benefit from, use ones that are proven to work and are battle tested, truly decentralized, and transparent, Bitcoin and Monero.. maybe Zcash.. And maybe run your own Monero Node (it's only 80Gb) out of spite like I do

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Also, since he can't launch it in most countries due to privacy regulations, this whole project is now nothing more than a few places in India where homeless people line up to get $5 for a scan of their eye.

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Note: When using a pruned Monero node you can reduce the size from 80GiB to ~25GiB

[–] leviathan@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, but if you have the disk space go for a full node