What if you don't have eyes?
Worldcoin
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#22> ensuring that every person on Earth can prove that they are indeed human >To address it, we built a new device called the Orb. It solves the problem through biometrics: the Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this at all . Wow. I hope this is satire. Imagine what a major nation state intelligence agency could do with a data set of globally-unique eyeball vein patte…
Well, they claim not to save the images, just a hash.
As-if you can ever actually hash a biometric and expect it to match in the future. The whole idea of a hash is that a tiny perturbation makes the output completely different.
It almost by definition cannot work for biometrics.
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#23Free coins for scanning your face on a blockchain and it will be there forever? Absolutely no thanks and no deal.
This is a definitive edition ponzi scam.
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#24> We are only a few months away from a global launch and we are running field tests in many locations around the world. In these field tests, people are waiting hours to receive their free share of Worldcoin [...]. Using dark patterns like artificially limiting supply before the product is even released to create an illusion of demand pretty much says everything you need to know about this. There are no interesting n…
Yup, already providing artificial scarcity and FOMO in case it becomes the next Big Thing that goes up tens of thousands of % in fiat money value.
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#25I don’t even think this is satire. This feels like the kind of made up stories that children come up with (and place themselves at the center of).
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#26Is there any evidence that a user can't get a new wallet for every pair of novelty contact lenses they buy?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, they claim not to save the images, just a hash.
As-if you can ever actually hash a biometric and expect it to match in the future. The whole idea of a hash is that a tiny perturbation makes the output completely different. It almost by definition cannot work for biometrics.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587
> Touch ID doesn't store any images of your fingerprint, and instead relies only on a mathematical representation. It isn't possible for someone to reverse engineer your actual fingerprint image from this stored data.
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#28So, my understanding of the current play in this space is as follows:
- Create a large number of worthless cryptographic tokens.
- Distribute around half of them as "freebies".
- Keep the other half to yourself / distribute them among your investors.
- Start a hype by injecting your investors money into your currency.
- Hope that people will start to trade/speculate with your currency, buying it for real monies.
- As the trading volume ramps up, start extracting money from the system by exchanging your tokens for real monies.
- Profit!
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#29A similar project here: https://www.proofofhumanity.id/
They don't solve the proof-of-humanness problem via biometrics, it's more of a web-of-trust kind of thing. Probably also broken as hell, but this is a hard problem being solved in new ways so that's expected.
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#30> ensuring that every person on Earth can prove that they are indeed human >To address it, we built a new device called the Orb. It solves the problem through biometrics: the Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this at all . Wow. I hope this is satire. Imagine what a major nation state intelligence agency could do with a data set of globally-unique eyeball vein patte…
The "Become an Orb Operator" link has got to be satire.