The Worldcoin Retina Scanner Orb

This German group wants to gather and store a retina scan hash for every human on earth to implement a ubiquitous UBI via an airdrop of a new crypto currency to all, with the retina ID to insure one share for each live person. Wild. This is an early build of the $5K scanner.

They start with a pretty big ask for trust, and the physical propagation delay of billions of in-person conversations and scans, so we’ll see how that goes. The trust part is in the code and governance: will their iris hash maintain uniqueness across a few billion eyeballs as they age, and not be usable for nefarious tracking by third parties?

They are still in stealth mode, with most of the team in Nuremberg. Critical reviews so far by Recode, Coindesk and Gizmodo.