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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by topper-123 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:48PM (#36975224)
Can someone explain how cheating is avoided is this setup? Can’t people just give fake biometric data to this system?
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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by lawn on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:19PM (#36975748)
It's centralized.
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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by TeeWEE on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:53PM (#36976332)
It’s now but it will be open and decentralized
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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by lawn on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:08PM (#36976582)
That's always the case with these projects. All the critical problems will be resolved sometime in the future.

And how will cheating be stopped at that time? Shrug

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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by psd1 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:49AM (#36983130)
Good, that solved cryptocurrency theft.
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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by derekdahmer on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:29PM (#36976909)
Part of their orb tech is a ton of sensors that make sure its a real eyeball on a human.
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