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Sam Altman’s Weird Cryptographic Eyeball Scanning Technology Comes to Minecraft
World currency, by Sam Altman cryptocurrency venture, is now integrating its verification services into popular apps like Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Mercado Libre, Telegram, and Minecraft. The move is part of Altman’s plan World ID 2.0which describes itself as “a human passport to the Internet.”
“Apps now allow you to verify existing accounts to apply a verification status, such as a blue checkmark,” Worldcoin said in a statement. blog post Wednesday. “They can also optionally enable World ID as a sign-in method for a more seamless experience.”
If you’ve never heard of Worldcoin before, buckle up. Worldcoin is OpenAI CEO’s cryptocurrency project, which aims to redistribute wealth to the people after AI captures all the money in the world. You register on Worldcoin with a scan your eyeball via a giant metal globe (follow me), so the company hopes to become the Internet’s default verification system, too. Users of major Internet platforms like Minecraft and Shopify can now “verify their humanity” with World ID, and Altman’s vision for Worldcoin has moved one step closer to reality.
Just so we’re all on the same page: Sam Altman, the man who is creating artificial intelligence (ChatGPT) also wants to verify your identity (World ID) and create your new financial system (Worldcoin).
A Worldcoin blog post says Wednesday’s updates “solidify World ID as the most secure, private, and inclusive proof of humanity.” If you thought the OpenAI mess was getting all of Sam Altman’s attention, you were wrong.
Verification is one of the latest and most worrying trends in technology. Elon Musk is asking users to be verified on X to use Grockhis AI chatbot. This costs about $20 a month and requires ID verification. Altman’s system requires you to sacrifice your bio data and sign up for his vision of wealth redistribution. If your product makes Elon Musk’s X look safe, that should be cause for concern.
Worldcoin has released a entire app store of platforms integrated with its verification technology. Not surprisingly, many of these early adopters are fintech companies, such as Shopify and Mercado Libre, which may one day adopt Worldcoin as a legitimate payment service. However, it is not there yet.
Minecraft is a surprising entrant on this list, as the platform’s creator, Mojang Studios, stated that it was Bitcoin mining payments in September. The popular video game briefly included a play-to-earn option, where users could earn cryptocurrency by playing Minecraft on certain servers, but Mojang Studios removed it from the platform after less than a year. Minecraft’s Worldcoin integration doesn’t include cryptocurrency, but it’s a sign that it might one day.