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Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb
Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, the project bets billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto, which over 130,000 users already have.

Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency
Sam Altman, former head of startup accelerator Y Combinator, is starting his own cryptocurrency called "worldcoin." For worldcoin to work, users must let the project scan their retinas, according to Bloomberg. "The Hash" team explore larger issues of privacy.


A16z, Coinbase-Backed Startup Looks to Distribute Crypto to Everyone on Earth by Scanning Their Eyeballs: Report
Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped unit to produce a unique identifier from an iris scan.

UNOCS altcoin partnership dismantled following Feathercoin pullout
UNOCS, the partnership designed to take several altcoins mainstream, has been dismantled following the departure of Feathercoin.

Altcoin partnership UNOCS launches Bridge service for instant merchant payments
UNOCS has announced a new payment system to enable instant payments between consumers and merchants.

Feathercoin, PhenixCoin and Worldcoin partner to form UNOCS, the United Open Currencies Solutions group
Feathercoin, PhenixCoin and Worldcoin have partnered to form United Open Currency Solutions (UNOCS).
