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> it doesn't solve the oracle problem That was never the goal. > There's a black market in China for these identities already It is built such that eventuall
by px43 3y ago
> it doesn't solve the oracle problem
That was never the goal.
> There's a black market in China for these identities already
It is built such that eventually, Worldcoin identities can be trivially reclaimed by the iris owner, so the market for these identities will drop to zero once people realize they can just sell their same Worldcoin cred over and over again and some sucker is going to buy it.
Their only goal here is to create an identity registration system where..
1. people don't need money to register
2. people don't need to have special friends to register
This is a sybil resistance mechanism, and no other system today does this. Also, the registration is basically fully anonymous. There is no way for anyone to enumerate everyone who has registered, and there is no way to link a registrant with the wallet activity of a credential holder. Say what you will, but IMO these are some pretty useful mechanics, and there are quite a few applications of this technology that can't be done without something like this.
- piva00 3y ago> Also, the registration is basically fully anonymous. You are uploading your iris scan into a black box, how can that be considered anonymous?
- px43 3y agoDesigns are mostly open, and plans are for the orbs to be fully open hardware. The iris is hashed into an "iriscode" and the detailed scans are deleted, and never leave the device. Iriscode is then linked via some zero knowledge proof witchcraft to activate a World ID on a new keypair, which is completely dissociated with the iriscode.