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How Do You Prove You're a Real Person Online? | NYC

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0:00A: And so how’s the conference been for you? What brought you out here?

0:02B: I came with my dad here to, like, learn a little about crypto and, like, all this stuff around it, I guess. Yeah.

0:09A: Okay. What have you been learning?

0:10B: Well, I’ve learned that some people are fake online, so people have created things to kind of stop that and make sure everybody is staying truthful online, I guess.

0:22A: So say more about that. Like, what does that mean?

0:24B: So some people may be using other people’s faces to get into things that they’re not supposed to get into. So people are resolving that problem by creating -- like, in the conference I was shown there’s like a new kind of thing that checks your retina so they can know if you’re an actual unique person and that you’re different, so you can’t hack into things you’re not supposed to get into.

0:49A: Oh, you’re talking about Worldcoin?

0:50B: Yeah, yeah.

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