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I can't believe someone that created Worldcoin could not be trustworthy.
by Keats 3y ago
I can't believe someone that created Worldcoin could not be trustworthy.
- mandmandam 3y agoWorldcoin alone is so, so damning of his character. Cartoon villain shit. It's hard to square that whole thing with the way people talk about him here. But every once in a while it hits; this is the guy who wanted to collect everyone's bloody retina pattern, all for a crypto so obviously bad in nearly every fundamental aspect.
- tim333 3y agoI'm a happy Worldcoin user. If the providers are happy and the users are happy I'm not sure what's cartoon villainish about it?
- 93po 3y agotheir long term project doesn't save or store retina patterns in any way. they store of a hash of it that is mathematically impossible to reverse. it's clear you wildly misunderstand how this works, i would encourage you to go learn more. i'd also welcome you to explain how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains
- mandmandam 3y agoI don't know what the gaps in your knowledge are to not see Worldcoin as a scam. And I'm not being paid to find out. But it's a fuckin scam. It's exploitative, and sleazy as fuck. It uses crappy blockchain tech, the orbs are proprietary, and you really ought to think twice before condescending at people who try to help you out on this.
- Clubber 3y agoI hear NFT's are gonna really hit soon....
- rrdharan 3y ago> how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains It sucks and the other uses also suck.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhy are you lying to protect sama’s reputation? Worldcoin stores the biometric data for opt-in users. They say it themselves. It’s stored “encrypted” which means the original data is retrievable, and kept in Worldcoin’s custody. All Worldcoin claims is that it has safeguards against retrieving the data it does collect and store, like say Equifax or 23andme claim about your PII.
- astrange 3y ago> It’s stored “encrypted” which means the original data is retrievable That does not follow. It's true if you're using technical terms correctly, but I've absolutely seen companies use encrypted to mean hashed.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoYou can read Worldcoins info yourself, they’re talking about reversible encryption. Thank you for your input.
- 93po 3y agoWhy are you being hostile? I said for the long term project they aren't storing any biometric data. They are doing it now to better train models, but long term it's not something they will gather at all nor need to gather. The retina scan hashes that are stored are not reversible, at all.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoSo they are doing it but might not later, alright
- Kiro 3y agoHow so? A universal and tamper-proof ID system sounds like a good idea. In my country we have a pretty rock solid digital ID but the problem is that it's national, so the utility is limited. I want to build global apps where I know every user is real and limited to one account but currently that's impossible. I don't know enough about Worldcoin to know if that's it though.
- 93po 3y agothat's exactly one of the biggest use cases for WC. the internet needs this and will need it 100x more in a few years
- AlexandrB 3y agoWhy does the internet "need" this? Anonymity and pseudonymity are features, not bugs of the internet. Eliminating them will supercharge surveillance and government/corporate control.
- sam0x17 3y agoThe short answer is a lot of potentially useful decentralized protocols completely buckle under the weight of Sybil attacks, so if Sybil attacks were impossible, there is a whole lot more that could be built
- blitzar 3y ago"but he looks like such a nice boy"