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Unveiling ‘Worldcoin’: Sam Altman’s controversial project in the crypto world

On the face of it, the project looks like a noble effort at solving the Web’s thorniest problem of fake identities, in reality, it has a very dystopian feel to it with a lot of unanswered…

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6 min readMay 18

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