Sam Altman’s“Worldcoin”: scanning your retina in exchange for a universal basic income

Filippo Lubrano
4 min readJun 8, 2023
Worldcoin’s Orb

A new round of over 100 million for the project of Sam Altman, just the latest of the philanthropists by interest.

In addition to the well-known Bitcoin, there are currently about 25,000 cryptocurrencies in the world: newborn, half-dying, shipwrecked, renewed projects; altcoins, stablecoins, shitcoins: the immaterial…

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Filippo Lubrano

Innovation and Internationalization Consultant, Journalist, Writer (Cybersec, Asia, Poetry)