Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded "proof of personhood" crypto project that scans people's eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the "coin"

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

To understand how much the worries of the tech elite have diverged from the everyday concerns of other people on earth, look no further than Sam Altman's startup that wants to scan the eyeballs of every human.