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Worldcoin is just a centralized / privately owned database of iris scans and issued user IDs that integrates with the blockchain.

> solution to a problem that we (society) definitely have, namely the real-people problem

> till now this problem has only been solved in shitty ways by governments

The solution Worldcoin provides is "trust us for knowing who is real-people". I fail to see how that's better than the way governments solve the problem.

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Governments regularly do terrible things in the banking system: Printing money, capital controls and mind boggling amount of red tape. With this red tape they can punish anyone who disagrees with them.

Oh yeah, all that abhorrent red tape like "If you are a bank you have to prove you aren't doing funny things with people's money" and "if you provide financial services you need to make an honest effort to not fund like, actual terrorists, or north korea" and "We thought we learned our lesson about unregulated stocks back when it caused the great depression"

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