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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Tomas VIOLA

Cash-strapped Argentines Queue For Eyeball Scans

Worldcoin is an initiative of OpenAI chief Sam Altman (Credit: 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.

Some three million people worldwide have so far provided their iris data to Worldcoin, an initiative of OpenAI chief Sam Altman, but few have embraced the project more fervently than Argentines.

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