Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)

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People are lured by easy money, without understanding the privacy implications of signing up for the block chain.

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[-] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People need to stop calling these things cryptocurrency. They have almost none of the properties of cryptocurrencies, such as premissionless transactions and pseudonymous wallets

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