Cash-Strapped Argentines Queue for Eye Scans
April 9th, 2024Via: AFP:
Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries.
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For volunteering their data, initial participants receive 10 tokens each of Worldcoin’s own cryptocurrency, the WLD.
In Argentina, with its notoriously unstable exchange rate, the value differs wildly; when Sosa and Marrero received theirs, 10 tokens were worth the equivalent of about $80.
