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Sam Altman's biometric identity company, World, raised $52.5 million by selling its own cryptocurrency at a discount to accredited investors.
The funding comes as major companies including Tinder, Zoom, and DocuSign integrate World ID to verify users are human without relying on traditional identity checks.
The latest investment highlights growing interest in biometric identity technology while fueling ongoing debates over privacy, cryptocurrency, and the future of online verification.
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00:00Am Altman, the guy behind ChatGPT, just raised $52 million for his other company,
00:04the one that scans your eyeballs. Yes, let me explain. This is What's Trending in Crypto,
00:08brought to you by ByteFederal. It's called World. The product is a chrome ball called an orb.
00:13You look into it, it scans your eye, and you get a code that proves you're a real human,
00:16not a bot. And I actually did this one day. So why should you care? Think about the comments
00:22under your last post. How many were written by a real person? You don't know anymore. And that's
00:26the problem he's selling the fix to, and the problem that he helped create via his AI.
00:31And here's the wild part. He didn't sell part of the company. They sold 217 million of their own
00:36crypto coins at a discount, locked in for a year. That coin is already down a third this month.
00:42So 18 million people have scanned their eye. The goal was a billion. Will they hit that? And would
00:46you do it? Let us know in the comments below. Follow us for more at What's Trending,
00:49and to find a Bitcoin ATM near you, go to ByteFederal.com.
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