Alex Blania is a cofounder of Worldcoin alongside Sam Altman and Max Novendtsern. Worldcoin is aiming to become the world's largest digital identity and financial network, giving ownership to everyone. Worldcoin could be considered the frontrunner in terms of ambition, leveraging unique methods to accelerate the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency technologies globally, to a point where critics have labelled it as "dystopian". In our conversation we dive into the controversial aspect of Worldcoin, get a better grasp of what the project is about and its founding story, the $WLD token, the (new) Orb, how scanned data is stored, and much more.

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0:00 Intro

1:20 What is Worldcoin?

7:52 $WLD Token

8:35 Who is Alex Blania?

12:04 The Orb

22:28 Dystopian Scenario

27:16 How Scanned Data is Stored

31:08 Bribing with Crypto

33:40 $WLD Utility

34:36 UBI

36:00 Usecases of Worldcoin

48:20 Bigger Issues

50:55 The New Orb

53:30 Decentralizing

54:50 The End State

56:30 Biggest Risk

57:30 Treasury

01:00:50 Doing things differently