How does Worldcoin plan to solve for people in wealthier countries not wanting to scan their eyeballs (because the UBI isn't meaningful enough)?
By getting governments to do it for them with KYC regulations
actually it could be a solution to the problem as much as it is a problem
Do you think UBI would work in a free market economy? Let’s eschew the whole token + eyeball silliness
Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to no clue people in exchange of a couple of dollars in public spaces in Argentina, disgusting.
Likely through a long tail of value props beyond the financial incentive For example, apps that require proof of personhood to use them, or voting schemes that require you to verify as a unique human Also early adoption of new technology often happens in developed countries b/c it is seen as high status
I’ve been a UBI denier for a long time, starting to have a small view where I think it may be necessary. Outside of that, I think wealthier nations would adopt on the backend of poorer nations growing from such programs, if working as they intend, requiring from bottom up in economic classes.
I am not scanning my eyeballs under any circumstances, this project is the bad place.
Yea, resource allocation requires solutions from the bottom up, not from the top down. In order to accomplish these goals, the coin must represent commodity / material movements IRL.
Just like Bitcoin did to US institutions Bootstrap speculation from the low-hanging fruit, at some point you hit escape velocity
if you got data for Iris and fingers of anyperson in aadhar based countries you can do everything in financial system claiming to be him bank transfers is just an example
Easy, OpenAI only accepts payment in $WLD.
Scan your eyeballs or an AI will do it for you Only half sarcastic.
I’m reading all this and am still wondering: but did you mint the first one? And I want the truth 😀 https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x6e60bcdf52078a250932cf9fec174c5f67348845
I got orbed at Eth Pragma for the fun and gimmick of it I reckon a good chunk of people might do it for the same reason
The answer to this is also one of the main concerns about this long term - that most people in developed countries will be essentially coerced into scanning their iris in order to access certain financial services or networks
the airdrop is not ubi itself during the beta people in wealthier countries are still excited to try crypto for the first time
Not sure it’s a necessary condition for network proliferation. WhatsApp grew faster outside developed countries faster than developing.
I live in a semi posh place in the UK -- they were here, no one scanned it. I sat there for 2 hours working in the background drinking my coffee just to see who would scan their eyes out of curiosity. I think this is going to be a topic of what AI agent you can make work for you and with you.
By ruthlessly restructuring corporate America and putting everyone out of work, leaving them with no choice but to submit to the Orb.
UBI paid in WLD will never be meaningful. The only way it could have worked is if they had built something that earns fee revenues like a wallet or rollup and redistributed those fees (in ETH or a stablecoin) as UBI. This is just dripping equity of what’s probably a security to people in exchange for their eyeballs
This might be the first time in the history of crypto to verify any user by using their fingerprint , iris , facial , voice to get some token that got listed on Binance.. it's really disastrous
I scanned to be part of the protocol. Wasn’t for the money. In the US you don’t get anything anyway right now.
