Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs in Exchange for Cryptocurrency

Sam Altman, the former head of the Silicon Valley business incubator Y Combinator, has launched a new startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth, but only after it has scanned everyone’s eyeballs. Among the many parts of its plan, Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device that would scan a person’s iris to construct a ...