Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan
Worldcoin talks about UBI which based on what Sam has said in the past I would take them at their word on. But beyond UBI what WorldCoin is going for is identity.<p>In the nonblockchain world your identity is your Country ID, Passport, etc.<p>In the blockchain world none of that stuff exists and people get uncomfortable when you start asking for it.<p>This leaves a situation where a person is often just represented by a wallet. Well as you may know a person can make dozens or hundreds of wallets.<p>This problem leads to all kinds of weird tricks that crypto projects get up to when trying to verify 1 wallet 1 person. For example in the idea of 1 person 1 vote on a project or for something like an airdrop early in a project where people on a discord get free crypto for being early adopters but you don&#x27;t want one person registering with many wallets.<p>Today that might look verification based on a phone number associated with discord or something. Real flimsy stuff.<p>Worldcoin bases it on retina, which I admit creeps me out as well even if it&#x27;s just a hash. But I can see what they&#x27;re getting at. The need is there, maybe there is a better way.<p>I used to work at crypto startup and we ran into this exact problem.