World Coin: A Low Key Initiative to Replace the Global Monetary System

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The idea is to scan the irises of as many people as possible and give them these cryptographic IDs that can then be used to prove that they are a real person. The more people who get their orbs scans and get this cryptocurrency, the more valuable it'll be. And eventually when you get your UBI payments because the robots have taken all the jobs, it will come in the form of this cryptocurrency.

On Sunday night, a crane arrived in downtown San Francisco to take down the Twitter sign from the company’s office building. The crane’s arrival marked the death of Twitter, the brand, and the start of X, Elon Musk’s everything app. Today, why Elon’s acquisition feels more and more like cultural vandalism and what, if anything, will replace the global town square.

Then, is Sam Altman’s universal basic income cryptocurrency app Worldcoin an iris scanning tool to save humanity, or just another attempt to get rich on crypto?

Plus: a trip to Google’s robotics lab, where artificial intelligence models are creating breakthroughs.

Additional reading:

Casey breaks down Twitter’s rebrand.
The launch of Worldcoin — and the story of how it recruited the first half a million users.
Kevin’s column is a deep dive into Google’s new robotics model, which melds A.I. with robots.