Worldcoin

> 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 pattern images of billions of persons.

The main reason more people aren’t using crypto is because transactions are slow and expensive. This doesn’t solve either of those problems.

> 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 new concepts here, except that in addition to being yet another bogus coin, you're also expected to give up your biometric data.

The idea of a fairly distributed world coin is fascinating, and something I would absolutely love to see.

Unfortunately, from reading that webpage, I don't think "Worldcoin" sounds like a very promising application of the concept.