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A comment on Sam Altman's cryptocurrency Worldcoin suspended in Kenya due to eye-tracking.

Re:Sam Altman's cryptocurrency Worldcoin suspended in Kenya ... by ryan69howard on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:10AM (#37281163)
The idea is for the eye data to act as the private key - right?
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Re:Sam Altman's cryptocurrency Worldcoin suspended in Kenya ... by matthews2 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:57AM (#37281771)
No. The eye data is used to prevent people from claiming the sign-up bonus twice. It is independent from the key you'd use to sign transactions. Worldcoin claim that the data from the eye scan is hashed, and then thrown away.
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Re:Sam Altman's cryptocurrency Worldcoin suspended in Kenya ... by gryn on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:14AM (#37281904)
> data from the eye scan is hashed, and then thrown away.

probably in the same way openAI, is open.

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