Worldcoin
Do you want to scan your eyes?

70 / Hot takes on @worldcoin and interesting ideas. Viable growth strategy, but objections to iris scanning and skepticism towards the role of governments in pan-national UBI. Discussion on P256 on EVM and @w3c recommendation for Webauthn. Presenting views on bridging EVM with Webauthn and the challenges with transaction cost.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

01:21 Special drink

02:04 Worldcoin

05:58 It's a DAO

06:14 The pitch deck

08:23 How does voting work?

Participants

@fulldecent

William Entriken

@dtedesco1

Daniel Tedesco

@037

AKM

@VjDeliria

Vj Deliria

@yodude38

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Episode notes

• Sam Altman’s support for Worldcoin
• Techcrunch intro for Worldcoin

ORIGINALLY AIRED 2023-04-04 / wrap-up Tweet

• https://youtu.be/8A_H9pB-db0 / tw / dc

TIMELINE

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:21 Special drink
• 02:04 Worldcoin
• 05:58 It’s a DAO
• 06:14 The pitch deck
• 08:23 How does voting work?

NOTES

• Erguotou Soda (probably terrible, but Will is a fan)
• Sam Altman’s support for Worldcoin
  • Techcrunch
  • Is proof of personhood really critical?
  • Claims of privacy about iris-scanning is hard to swallow
    • How devices with private key inside get hacked
  • Feels like an overt plan to take over the world
    • Would be more credible to collaborate with governments instead of going over the top
    • Pinky & The Brain
  • Main types of voting
    • Role-based
    • Token-based
  • Review the Worldcoin mythbusting article
• P256 on EVM: https://p256.alembic.tech/
  • Private-public key paradigm is used all over
  • Wauthn is a W3C recommendation
  • Can replace passwords
    • (Solution to passwords is the account issuer also issues the password instead of user choosing)
  • Soft wallet
  • Webauthn message is not signed on-chain, so we need to figure out who pays
  • EIP-4337 might address this, but the whole premise is dependent on that EIP
  • Basically a bridge from EVM networks to webauthn
• Self healing code // the “seesaw technique”
• 6:40 – Open discussion
  • @janacmeena7: Any thoughts on the new erc-4337 @web3news_media
• https://xkcd.com/810/

TWEET

• Episode 70!

  With hot takes on @worldcoin, interesting ideas, viable growth strategy, but no I don’t want iris scanning, and no I don’t think governments want a pan-national entity doing their UBI

• Who pays for the UBI?

• P256 on EVM @w3c recommendation for Webauthn, thank you @codekaiju and more

  This is a plan for “bridging” EVM with Webauthn, currently in alpha status, issues remain: can that be a transaction (EIP-4337), or who has to pay the gas?

• Thank you for staying to the end!