A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world’s citizens.

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    > > > “I’ve been very interested in things like universal basic income and what’s going to happen to global wealth redistribution,” Sam Altman, Worldcoin’s cofounder > >

    Holy crap it’s Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. After that recent article about his $2 Kenyan workers it’s much harder to believe in benevolent intentions.

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      Any time someone creates a new coin instead of using the thousands available, it’s 99.9% a scam. We don’t need a new money supply for a UBI, this has been discussed to death in crypto circles for over a decade.