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that'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 ago
  Why 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 ago
    The 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
    • mattstir 3y ago
      So how do retinal scans protect against Sybil attacks exactly?
      • sam0x17 3y ago
        I don't believe that they do, in fact, it is probably trivial to make a fake WorldCoin identity, but people who support WorldCoin largely support it on the assumption that this is not possible.
        • mcpackieh 3y ago
          I think the people who support Worldcoin do so either on the basis of it being another shitcoin they can make money speculating with, or because they're in Sam's personality cult.
        • 93po 3y ago
          It does
          • sam0x17 3y ago
            claiming to do != do
      • 93po 3y ago
        5 minutes on their website would answer this question.
  • 93po 3y ago
    This is why it's frustrating to discuss WC. WC preserves anonymity and pseudonymity entirely. People assume it doesn't and then it perpetuates the misinformation around it that make people hate it.