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Will this not kill the whole venture? Isn't the eyeball scanning one of the fundamentals of their "business model"?
The EU certainly has the means and will to fine this into the ground if they don't comply.
Shutting down eyeball scanning for cash worldwide would basically turn Worldcoin into yet another cryptocurrency so... Yeah.
Edit: looks like somebody thought it was worth real money at some point though. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/worldcoin-org/
Anybody remember how cryptocurrency was supposed to democratize money or something? Or am I getting the slogan confused with AI
Smokescreen to get people who don't really understand computers to buy into a system which can be easily controlled by those who produce/own the physical devices involved, while hiding their tracks near perfectly.
If I remember correctly, wasn't Bitcoin originally created for trading Magic: The Gathering cards online?
You're thinking of Mtgox, a Magic card trading website that reinvented itself as a Bitcoin exchange—and then disappeared with its users' money.
It did. With Bitcoin, anybody with a cell phone and halfway reliable internet access can send money globally in under a second for pennies in fees (with Bitcoin lightning). They can be their own bank without trusting any single third party. It doesn't matter if their country has secure banking infrastructure and it doesn't matter what their credit score is. There are countries on this planet where women aren't allowed to open bank accounts. Bitcoin doesn't give AF.
It has promoted and maintained the exact same fiscal policy for 15 years without a single hour of downtime or hack: a limited supply and a guarantee of your ability to transfer your coin to somebody else. No bank holidays, nobody devaluing your currency by increasing the supply. No having your savings robbed by an unstable central bank. It gives anybody in the world access to a currency that is already as stable or more stable than most national currencies. And it gives any country in the world an option aside from using USD and, inherently, losing some degree of autonomy in the process. There's a reason Ecuador and Argentina went in on it so hard.
People underestimate how big Bitcoin really is. It's market cap is 850 billion USD, that's the size of Sweden's GDP and puts it in the top 25 countries by GDP. On average, it has a trend of consistent growth year after year as adoption continues to increase. It is uncensorable, the US could decide to ban Bitcoin tomorrow, a gamma ray from space could blast half of the earth out of existence, and the next block would come regardless and the network would continue to function.
It does all this for around 1% of global electricity usage, mainly from renewables and is powering a new green revolution by being a "buyer of last resort" for power grids. This makes electricity cheaper for all other users of the grid as it's able to buy power when nobody else wants it, enabling power generation facilities to not lose money during times of low demand. This also makes it easier for grids to add renewable capacity. Bitcoin is a form of energy storage in that sense. Miners don't buy power during times of peak demand for price reasons, so it doesn't take power that anybody else would be using.
True, not a single hack... Just over $70 billion worth of hacks
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
Due to the instability of cryptocurrency, calling it currency and not something like "speculative assets" is very funny.
It's a nightmare to use as a currency.
Argentina’s poverty levels hit 57% of population, a 20-year high in January
I want the drugs you've got. Increased interest in cryptocurrency equals higher energy usage. Adoption leads to excess straining of energy without helping anybody except for, as you see in Argentina, the rich.