{"id":168250,"date":"2023-07-24T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:24:10","slug":"openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman launches Worldcoin crypto project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 24 (Reuters) \u2014 Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s core offering is its World ID, which the company describes as a \u201cdigital passport\u201d to prove that its holder is a real human, not an AI bot. To get a World ID, a customer signs up to do an in-person iris scan using Worldcoin\u2019s \u2018orb\u2019, a silver ball approximately the size of a bowling ball. Once the orb\u2019s iris scan verifies the person is a real human, it creates a World ID.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind Worldcoin is San Francisco and Berlin-based Tools for Humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24 (Reuters) \u2014 Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched on Monday. The project\u2019s core offering is its World ID, which the company describes as a \u201cdigital passport\u201d to prove that its holder is a real human, not an AI bot. To get a World ID, a customer signs up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}