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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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My understanding is the premise of world coin is to provide identity verification somehow, but I don't get how is it supposed to work?
Also how does it benefit the network to have scanned irises for people who don't care about world coin or understand how it works?
You're looking at it wrong. This is a scheme to collect mass amounts of biometric data. What's the end goal? No idea, but I doubt it'll be to the benefit of mankind.
Even if you believe that, and trust the people running these scanning stations, synthetic images generated from biometric hashes are still a thing, such as with Masquerade.