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Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb

Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, the project bets billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto, which over 130,000 users already have.

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Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency

Sam Altman, former head of startup accelerator Y Combinator, is starting his own cryptocurrency called "worldcoin." For worldcoin to work, users must let the project scan their retinas, according to Bloomberg. "The Hash" team explore larger issues of privacy.

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