Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will request data on cryptocurrency Worldcoin
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it will review Worldcoin (WLD). And coincidentally the project of Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT.
"We are paying attention to the launch of Worldcoin in the UK and will make further inquiries," an ICO spokesperson explained.
On July 24, Worldcoin developers held an airdrop (free giveaway) of eponymous tokens to World App users. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, OKX, Bybit, Huobi and others opened trading in the token under the WLD ticker shortly after its appearance.
The concept of the project is simple: as artificial intelligence becomes more and more active in everyday life, it will be increasingly difficult to distinguish between humans and machines. That's why we need a way to "prove the humanity" of people - a solution that Worldcoin calls proof of personhood.
Orb eye scanning device in the Tools for Humanity office. Worldcoin scans people's eyeballs with the Orb device, a reflective metal ball that records information about a person's iris in the form of a cryptographic code. All those who pass the scan will receive periodic grants in WLD tokens. And the creators of the project are positioning this as a form of universal basic income. Right now, the project has scanned the irises of just over 2 million people. These individuals, if they do not reside in the United States, have each received 25 WLD tokens. $WLD
