Sam AltmanPresident of OpenAI and creator of well-known developers ChatGPTHe is also the brain behind the project world moneyA company that set out with the slogan “The global economy belongs to everyone”, universal basic income -form cryptocurrency It is accessible to everyone, regardless of location or economic situation, through a digital identity system.
Created in 2019, it was June 2021 that it revealed what was curious and disturbing to many. Global distribution plan for WLD tokens However, after testing in many countries, its official global launch took place last July.
The operation is simple: just download your app, sign up as in other applications and start receiving bonuses for free with a certain number of coins at regular intervals (about once every 15 days). How is this? Free money? Where is the trap?
The “trick” is that you accumulate this money, but you cannot use it (send it to your account or debit card, buy things or exchange it for other cryptocurrencies) Until you verify your digital identity via OrbIt’s a spherical, silver mechanism the size of a basketball that scans the iris of your eyes.
These devices biometric verificationfrom what exists today 2,000 piecesDistributed by 35 countries worldwideAmong them is Spain.
The purpose of this system is, on the one hand, No one can impersonate your identity or use your moneyOn the other hand, no one can create more than one account to get more tokens.
A “digital passport” connected to artificial intelligence
Total in our country 21 Spherestwo of which have arrived since last Saturday Alicante, specifically on the upper floor of Plaza Mar 2 Shopping Mall, between Mango and Scalpers, during the opening hours of this complex from Monday to Sunday. “A lot of people came to sign up,” the person responsible for helping users complete the verification process, which takes just three minutes, said today.
This is the only point where interested parties can get information in the province. World IdentityIt is this type of digital passport that allows you to prove that you are a natural person, preserving the anonymity inherent in the decentralized networks on which cryptocurrencies operate.
In addition to being the only way for now to receive and unlock money received in the form of tokens, this identification system will, with the development of artificial intelligence in the coming years, access more and more online services.
In fact, this World ID (and WLD cryptocurrency) already works on platforms such as Telegram, Discord, Shopify, Minecraft and Reddit, among others. progressive diffusion It causes the price of Worldcoin’s token (at the time of writing these lines, there were already close to 2.7 million verified people in a total of 120 countries) to increase.
It was priced at 1.7233 euros on launch day, July 24, and after reaching its lowest ever level (€0.89) on September 13, it reached its maximum just three days ago (December 17): peak: €4.29. It is currently 3.39 euros, so the person who authenticates with Orb will receive approximately 10 WLD. 33 euros available at any time you want.
The “disadvantage” that many people attribute to Altman’s so-called “philanthropic” project is biometric dataraises concerns about user security.
However, the new update to the protocol presented on the 13th, World Identity 2.0 to present more privacy. In fact, data retention is optional from the application itself.