Thousands of Argentines are participating in a project called Worldcoin, where they have their irises scanned in exchange for a financial boost. The project aims to develop a digital identification system using iris data to secure online transactions.
Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a fewworldwide have so far provided their iris data to Worldcoin , an initiative of OpenAI chief Sam Altman, but few have embraced the project more fervently than Argentines .
"I did it because I don't have any money, for no other reason," 64-year-old martial arts teacher Juan Sosa told AFP after staring for a few seconds into a silver iris-scanning orb roughly the size of a bowling ball at one of 250 Worldcoin locations across Argentina.
"Sometimes, to have a roof over your head, you need to do other things to be able to afford it. Otherwise, in Argentina today, you can't afford a roof." In Argentina, with its notoriously unstable exchange rate, the value differs wildly; when Sosa and Marrero received theirs, 10 tokens were worth the equivalent of about $80.Natalia Zuazo, a technology policy specialist and director of digital consulting firm Salto Agencia, told AFP Worldcoin was attracting most volunteers in"countries in crisis... the poorest countries, because people are more likely to enter into such transactions.
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