{"id":168430,"date":"2023-07-27T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/worldcoin-struggles-to-find-new-users-willing-to-scan-iris-for-crypto"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:22:50","slug":"worldcoin-struggles-to-find-new-users-willing-to-scan-iris-for-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/worldcoin-struggles-to-find-new-users-willing-to-scan-iris-for-crypto","title":{"rendered":"Worldcoin struggles to find new users willing to scan iris for crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worldcoin-struggles-to-find-new-users-willing-to-scan-iris-for-crypto2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/worldcoin-confirms-it-is-the-cause-of-mysterious-safe-deployments\"><strong><em>Worldcoin confirms it is the cause of mysterious Safe deployments<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stark contrast in the number of sign-ups before and after the launch suggests a lack of enthusiasm. However, the early on-boards also proved controversial, with one MIT report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/04\/06\/1048981\/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suggesting<\/a> that the developers behind the project attracted the first million using deception, cash handouts and more, especially in developing countries where data laws are notably weak.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcoin has drawn scrutiny and commentary from many well-known names in the crypto community, including <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/worldcoin-token-launch-sparks-response-from-vitalik-buterin\">Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin<\/a> and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. In its defense, the project has maintained that it doesn\u2019t collect personal information and can delete the biometric data upon user request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: Worldcoin confirms it is the cause of mysterious Safe deployments The stark contrast in the number of sign-ups before and after the launch suggests a lack of enthusiasm. However, the early on-boards also proved controversial, with one MIT report suggesting that the developers behind the project attracted the first million using deception, cash handouts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168430","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}