 "Sam Altman wants to scan your eyeball in exchange for cryptocurrency")
Sam Altman has a startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth. But first, it wants to scan everybody’s eyeballs. The former head of the Silicon Valley business incubator Y Combinator is one of Worldcoin’s three founders. Among the many parts of its plan, Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device that would scan a person’s iris to build a unique personal identifier.
The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital arm of Coinbase Global, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Day One Ventures. It recently raised about $25 million from investors.
Altman, 36, said
