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> Incentivising users to associate real world identities with their crypto identities by paying them $30 isn't a terrible idea.

There's this project called Worldcoin which gives you "crypto of the future" for registering your retina and more "crypto of the future" for setting up "orb" devices to scan other's retinas.

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I've heard if it. I just don't think biometrics are ever going to be good enough to securely drive a key from.

And even if they were, I'm not sure one-key-per-human is what you'd want. I think we ought to be able to generate pseudonyms which provably belong on to a taxpaying citizen, but which can't be traced to the specific one. For protecting whistleblowers and such.

An inverted funnel of world coin, it seems.

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