The latest hardware of the WorldCoin, Orb Mini, who aimed at enabling portable human verification, has met with ridicule on Crypto Twitter.
Launched with slogans “It’s go go where you go,” the device has triggered diastopian comparisons instead and is widespread fake for its uncertain implications and unclear use.
Decentralized Finance (DEFI) Lending platform Eulicia Finance of ELISI Katz wrote on X, “The thing about humans is that when a human is in front of them, they can tell them.”
“When something stops slightly, they may experience the supernatural valley, when your date tries to scan your eyeball, an uncomfortable feeling,” she said.
Another user quipped, “Is it that you can register your friends?” Instead of a serious identity solution to the device in a science-fi proph instead of a serious identity solution.
Orb Mini is a portable iris-scanning device that creates a unique world ID for users stored on blockchain. The view resembles a smartphone with the sensor of the eye, it is a small, more accessible version of the original orb of the worldcon.
Unveiled at the “et -last” event in San Francisco on 30 April, the device is part of a broad push by devices for humanity, which is also planned to roll 7,500 arb units in the US by the end of the year.
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Crypto users question Orb Mini’s practicality
Many major voices expressed concern over security, morality and basic practicality.
“What does this real life problem solve?” One user asked, while the other mocked its vulnerability for spuofing, suggesting the device with a tweet “One can be fooled by a human half-proclaimed AI render.”
In the same thread, a user recommended a “rectal check” for a satirically more secure identification probe, claimed, “each human anal print is unique.”
Critics also slammed the social implications of the device. Core Clipsten, CEO of Swan Bitcoin, called Orb Mini a “creepy diastopia-shilling” tool, suggests that the product reflects insecurity among its creators rather than resolving any real trust issue.
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WorldCoine face resistance
WorldCoine push to create biometric identity tools faces mainstream resistance, especially questions about privacy advocates decentralization, monitoring and physical autonomy.
On 5 May, the company faced challenges in Indonesia to a company supported by Sam Altman’s equipment for humanity, as local regulators temporarily suspended their registration certificates.
Since its launch in July 2023, many global regulators have pushed back the world’s operations, with governments such as Germany, Kenya and Brazil express concern over the potential risks to protect biometric data of users.
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