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Comment on Sam Altman's cryptocurrency Worldcoin suspended in Kenya due to eye-tracking

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The idea is for the eye data to act as the private key - right?

No. The eye data is used to prevent people from claiming the sign-up bonus twice. It is independent from the key you'd use to sign transactions. Worldcoin claim that the data from the eye scan is hashed, and then thrown away.

data from the eye scan is hashed, and then thrown away.

probably in the same way openAI, is open.

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