worldcoin

here are a few off-the-cuff reactions to World, v open to learning more but not sure the best place to start.

WHAT I LIKE
- incredible, tasteful branding; nails the language and positioning "the real human network," super high quality events / experiences to-date
- the hardware is actually sick AF; have you seen an Orb IRL?
- arguably the largest scale and reach out of any crypto company (300k new accounts in the last 7 days alone)
- mini app ecosystem is robust; 250M+ mini app opens recorded to date

WHAT I'M SKEPTICAL ABOUT
- privacy, esp for Western users; who wants to give their biometric data to OpenAI, predicting some sort of partnership at their event next week
- lots of non-Western humans use ChatGPT for translation / replies, so even though they are "real humans" the responses reads as AI-generated or low-effort so doesn't solve "dead internet theory"
- human-first blockchain but has pretty bad customer service lol

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They were the only project that could give out free tokens to every user. Whether opening the app to get free money converts remains to be seen.

We enable the same thing with a purely software solution.