It hasn’t even launched yet, but already there are signs of a new kind of black market springing up around Worldcoin. Co-created by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the Worldcoin project revolves around a soon-to-launch token that will be distributed to anyone who proves they’re a unique individual. The main way of doing that is to get an iris scanned by one of Worldcoin’s orbs. Over 1.7 million people have already signed up — the majority of them in the Global South. But as its launch nears, scammers are finding ways to cheat the system. BlockBeats, a Chinese news site, said in tweets posted earlier today that people in China — ... (full story)