news 
Vitalik Buterin Sounds the Alarm on Sam Altman’s World
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised the alarm over Sam Altman’s digital identity project, World, warning that its one-person-one-ID model poses a significant threat to the core principle of crypto culture: pseudonymity.
World, previously known as Worldcoin, has experienced an impressive surge in adoption, boasting over 13 million verified “unique humans” through its controversial Orb-based iris-scanning technology. The project rewards users with a cryptocurrency token called WLD for biometric verification.
Although Buterin acknowledges the technical merits of the system, which utilizes zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to preserve privacy, he believes that the broader implications could be detrimental.
In a recent post, Buterin emphasized the importance of pluralistic identity systems. He argued that World’s rigid implementation risks eliminating pseudonymity, stating that it may force all online activity to fall under a single publicly known persona.
In the digital asset space, multiple wallets, usernames, and pseudonyms have become commonplace, offering privacy and protection in an era of heightened surveillance and geopolitical risk.
Source: www.coinspeaker.com
