OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raked in nearly $100 million – including from indicted FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and Jeffrey Epstein’s former comrade Reid Hoffman – for his latest cryptocurrency project that relies on a creepy eye-scan “Orb” to verify users
The funds will be used to advance Worldcoin — Altman’s plan for a secure, global cryptocurrency that offers free crypto in exchange for a scan of users’ eyeballs.
The tech associated with Worldcoin’s proof-of-personhood verification, however, is still in beta, with plans to launch in the next few weeks.
It’s been slow to get off the ground since it was founded in 2019 as co-founder and OpenAI boss Altman has been busy finalizing a deal with Microsoft where the tech giant invested $10 billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65609123
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