• lobut
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    1 month ago

    I thought there was gonna be a joke about his crypto eye worldcoin thing when it mentioned eyes. I wanna call it a scam but I frankly don’t know. I just assume anything crypto related is a scam.

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      1 month ago

      “Worldcoin” is explicitly a project to create a global database of retinal patterns to sell to governments and law enforcement agencies.

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        1 month ago

        That feels scary to me. I don’t know why … I genuinely don’t know how governments or law enforcement or even private entities will use that data but it’s like 23andMe. I just don’t want them to have it.

        And paying for that information in crypto feels shady too.

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          Yep, mass surveillance, AI, and crypto all rolled into one big police state power play. Isn’t modern technology wonderful?

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      1 month ago

      Anything crypto related is a scam. It’s just a question of whether you luck out and get off of the pump-and-dump ride in time. The rich people who only see it as a financial instrument for speculation are counting on people holding on for even greater profits so that they can be left holding the bag.

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      I just assume anything crypto related is a scam.

      Wasn’t always the case but definitely is now.