Pre- Alpha version of cyberpunk social currency: WorldCoin.
Since modern times, whenever the time comes from the 1920s to the 1950s of this century, human beings will enter a new era of technological explosion.
New epic technological inventions such as Gutenberg movable type printing, Jenny textile machine, Watt steam engine, breech-loading gun, telegraph, electronic computer, nuclear energy, etc. all occurred in the 1920s to 1950s.
And now we will enter an era of technological explosion with AI, cryptocurrency, space exploration, quantum computing, and biotechnology as the main theme.
Looking back at history, new technological explosions often give birth to new political, economic, social and cultural structures.
And this latest technological explosion gave birth to the cyberpunk society described in the best-selling book "A Brief History of Humanity" and the famous game "Cyberpunk 2027": that is, capital completely occupies and controls society in the form of companies, and the government All public goods such as military, police, currency, etc., and even the complete privatization of individual human beings, capitalists have risen to omniscient and omnipotent gods, and ordinary people have become two different races.
In my opinion, WorldCoin is very likely to be the pre- Alpha version of the fully privatized currency of the upcoming cyberpunk society.
2. The narrative core of WorldCoin: the metaphor of the times in "1984" and the core values of Baizuo
WorldCoin is an encryption project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman in 2019.
When raising funds in 2019, WorldCoin’s main narrative was an inclusive and open cryptocurrency (same positioning as Celo), AirDrop to 1 billion people, and now WorldCoin’s main narrative has become artificial intelligence-powered UBI (Universal Basic Income, emm, the real world's tall tales of AirDrop).
In 2019==>2023, the narrative of WorldCoin is changing, but the core values are still white left's tolerance, pluralism and welfarism.
This seems to be incompatible with the far-right Darwinism currently prevailing in the encryption world.
But in fact, they are just two sides of the same coin. They are the A side and B side of the social ideology derived from financial capitalism, both of which serve financial capitalism
It's just that Bai Zuo is good at alienating and controlling the individual as a human being with beautiful vocabulary and narrative.
This is exactly the behavior path of WorldCoin. In the name of tolerance, pluralism and welfarism, it fully grasps the individual's iris data, personal information and financial books, and completely privatizes the individual as the company's assets to produce truly random data feeding. AI.
Such a cyberpunk social scene reminds me of the world famous novel "1984".
In my opinion, "1984" satirizes not only the Soviet Union, but also Britain under the Labor Party and the United States under the Democratic Party.
And Sam Altman himself has a close relationship with SBF, the former money bag of the Democratic Party, and the last round of financing of WorldCoin has the shadow of FTX.
3. WorldCoin's product architecture: three-dimensional integration to realize the currency of cyberpunk society
WorldCoin's product architecture consists of three parts: native encrypted currency WorldCoin (so-called UBI), encrypted wallet WorldApp, and biometric binding DID WorldID:
--WorldCoin, WorldCoin's native cryptocurrency, will be AirDrop for free to users who register for WorldApp through Orb machine iris recognition verification.
--WorldApp, WorldCoin's self-custodial wallet, its features are lightweight, support account abstraction, and composition. WorldApp is the most simplified design, small in size and supports mobile phones from 10 years ago. WorldApp integrates Safe's account abstract wallet address function, Uniswap's token transaction function, USDC, Ramp and MoonPay's deposit and withdrawal ports. Now running on Polygon, after EIP-4844 is upgraded, it will be migrated to the self-developed Rollup extension chain.
--WorldID, based on the DID identity generated by iris recognition, WorldCoin has specially developed a machine Orb for iris recognition for this function. Currently, the identity of Chinese people cannot pass the authentication. With a WorldID identity, you can enjoy benefits such as free Gas fee, fast transfers for verified users, learning courses to earn coins, etc. From a product perspective, it is not much special compared with other wallets such as BitKeep.
But the WorldCoin product is only a tool to serve the political and economic purposes of Sam Altman and his financial backers, not the purpose itself.
I thought WorldCoin was their tool to continue and expand their power in the coming cyberpunk era.
in conclusion
The coachman cannot resist the arrival of the steam age, the postman cannot resist the arrival of the telegraph age, and we cannot resist the arrival of the AI age. The cyberpunk society is the inescapable destiny of our generations.
Capitalists rise to gods, and ordinary people are alienated into things.
WorldCoin’s excessive collection of personal biological data, personal information, and personal financial data, but if it can really become one of the mainstream private currencies in the cyberpunk era, then early participants will undoubtedly have certain advantages in the new social structure .
So I will take the initiative to participate and take the initiative to reduce it to a thing.
Personal bias, please bear with me.
