Worldcoin ($WLD) Deep Dive with Alex Blania | Crypto's Most Dystopian Project?
Alex Blania is a cofounder of Worldcoin alongside Sam Altman and Max Novendtsern. In our conversation we dive into the controversial aspect of Worldcoin, get a better grasp of what the project is about and its founding story, the $WLD token, the (new) Orb, how scanned data is stored, and much more.
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Alex Blania is a cofounder of Worldcoin alongside Sam Altman and Max Novendtsern. Worldcoin is aiming to become the world's largest digital identity and financial network, giving ownership to everyone. Worldcoin could be considered the frontrunner in terms of ambition, leveraging unique methods to accelerate the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency technologies globally, to a point where critics have labelled it as "dystopian".
In our conversation we dive into the controversial aspect of Worldcoin, get a better grasp of what the project is about and its founding story, the $WLD token, the (new) Orb, how scanned data is stored, and much more.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:20 What is Worldcoin?
7:52 $WLD Token
8:35 Who is Alex Blania?
12:04 The Orb
22:28 Dystopian Scenario
27:16 How Scanned Data is Stored
31:08 Bribing with Crypto
33:40 $WLD Utility
34:36 UBI
36:00 Usecases of Worldcoin
48:20 Bigger Issues
50:55 The New Orb
53:30 Decentralizing
54:50 The End State
56:30 Biggest Risk
57:30 Treasury
01:00:50 Doing things differently
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