Sam Altman Just Launched a Crypto Card & Wants to Verify You’re Not a Robot 😳

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Well now, it seems Mr. Sam Altman—a fellow who must’ve been born with an eye for profit and a taste for spectacle—has unveiled his grand contraption, the World, right here in these United States. Not content with merely sorting out who’s human and who’s nothing but lines of code, he’s fixing to hand out shiny Visa cards and even put folks on a modern-day matchmaking steamboat—Tinder’s gone digital, mind you.

Turns out, this parade’s rolling through six fine cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco—quite the whistle-stop tour for anyone with a hunger for tokens and a thirst to prove they’re living, breathing, and coffee-drinking. Don’t fret, if you survive the initiation, you’ll get WLD tokens, which is either marvelous or mysterious—likely both.

Personal finance 🤝 Rewards for verified humans.

The World Card will let verified humans spend straight from World App and access rewards. Online, IRL, anywhere @Visa is accepted.

— World (@worldcoin) May 1, 2025

Apparently, folks the world over are already stampeding for a slice of this pie—so far, there’ve been 26 million eager souls (and no doubt a few cunning raccoons or bureaucrats)—though only 12 million have managed to convince the machine they’re the genuine article. The rest, one imagines, are somewhere pondering their digital reflections.

Now, some people—those with more sense than excitement—are wringing their hands about privacy and the danger of having their biometric particulars whisked away into the ether. Not to worry! The official declaration is that no such data will be hoarded. Believe that as you would a politician’s promise.

As if chasing after humanity wasn’t enough, they’re tossing out this World Visa card. Pay for goods and get your hands on rewards, so long as your wallet jingles with WLD tokens or crypto-whatnots. Merchants, meanwhile, get their money in plain-old dollars—so if your barista doesn’t know what a blockchain is, nobody’s the wiser.

And for anyone with an itch for romance or an appetite for disappointment, World’s hanging its hat with Match Group—those folks behind Tinder—and carting the whole shebang to Japan. The aim? Ensuring the chap or lady you’re wooing isn’t a bot, a dog wearing sunglasses, or your cousin pulling a fast one.

Ambition runs high—World’s itching for a billion users. Revolutionary, they say. The way folks meet, greet, and pay for coffee may never be the same. By and by, perhaps, the greatest mystery will no longer be “Is there life after death?” but “Is there any life left before verification?”

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2025-05-01 08:23