Sam Altman’s WorldCoin crypto project has officially launched

it took Three yearsMultiple digital asset market dislocations and hundreds of millions of dollars, but the eyeball-scanning crypto project known as Worldcoin has officially launched.

WorldCoin, the digital identity and crypto-payments project co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, “is an attempt at global deployment,” said Monday in a statement. “The journey will be challenging and the outcome uncertain.”

The digital asset market and the wider technology industry have undergone sharp changes in the years since the project was founded. Since June 2021, when Bloomberg first reported on Altman’s new startup, the price of Bitcoin has taken a rollercoaster ride …