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Crypto has broken new ground yet again, not in the exchange of digital currencies meant to upset the global economic paradigm, but by facilitating the black market trade of peoples biometric data. Specifically, fraudsters desperate to glom onto a crypto project headed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are reportedly buying detailed scans of peoples irises in order to claim coins for the still-unreleased Worldcoin project. The news first came to light by Chi taza termo na-based crypto outlet BlockBeats, which tweeted Thursday about a black market for irises used to gain access to the Worldcoin network beta. Users need to submit their eye t stanley isolierkanne o a scan by a Worldcoin Orb, a physical imaging device used to capture high-resolution images of their body and face. Those who do are promised free crypto tokens while their accounts are anonymized. Essentially, the project wants to offer a kind of universal basic income for all those who prove theyre still human and not one of Altmans own AI chatbots or worse, Altmans ill-defined sense of a so-called AGI . These Orb operators are spread throughout the countries where the company currently operates, which as it happens does not include mainland China. The company says there are more than 1.7 million people signed up so far. But according to BlockBeats, people in China are buying the iris data from people in Cambodia, Kenya, and a few other countries for as little as $30 a pop. stanley thermos Worldcoin claims that the issue is actually that verified World IDs, rather Yqmd NASA s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
DENNIS BRACK / BLACK STAR鈥擳IMEBy Joan E. GreveAugust 5, 2014 5:45 AM EDTRead more about stanley botella Nixon resignation in TIME archives.Friday marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon resi stanley termohrnek gning from the U.S. presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and subsequent cover-up. The anniversary comes just as a handful of Republicans, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, threaten to impeach President Barack Obama. Impeachment is a message that has to be sent to our president that we ;re not going to put up with this lawlessness, Palin said in early July.But the current situation is still a far cry from what went on 40 years ago. Today, even the President opposition in the House admits that there no serious impeachment effort underway. The House did vote to support Speaker John Boehner lawsuit against Obama, but that not about impeachment. For Nixon, however, the House Judiciary Committee went through with it, passing one article of impeachment against Nixon on July 27, 1974. The issue would have then moved to the full House of Representativ stanley termos es, where it had been likely to pass and continue on to the Senate, which had the power to remove Nixon from office. None of that happened, of course. Nixon resigned before it could.In recognition of a political decision that rocked the country 40 years ago mdash; and that other one currently attempting to rock the Democratic fundraising arm mdash; here are six quot