Why You Shouldn't Let This Startup Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Crypto

Some of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley want to scan your eyeball. You almost certainly shouldn't let them. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffmann, and major venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz are all backing a recently revealed plan by a company called Worldcoin, which mashes up three big ideas: It's a cryptocurrency company, and it's a Universal Basic Income project, and also it's a biometric-scanning company. If, first, the world will share its irises. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Worldcoin's goal is to use cryptocurrency as way to spread money more equitably around the world in a setup similar to a universal basic income.