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“Humans can tell when it’s a human” — Community mocks Worldcoin’s Orb Mini

“Humans can tell when it’s a human” — Community mocks Worldcoin’s Orb Mini

Worldcoin’s latest hardware, the Orb Mini, aimed at enabling portable human verification, has been met with ridicule across Crypto Twitter. Launched with the slogan “It goes where you go,” the device has instead triggered dystopian comparisons and widespread mockery for its unsettling implications and unclear use case. “The thing about humans is they can tell when a human is in front of them,” Alicia Katz from decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Euler Finance wrote on X. “When something is slightly off, they can experience the uncanny valley, an uncomfortable feeling similar to when your date tries to scan your eyeball,” she added. Another user quipped, “Is this so you can register your friends?” likening the device to a sci-fi prop rather than a serious identity solution. Source: Alicia Katz The Orb Mini is a portable iris-scanning device that creates a unique World ID for users stored on the blockchain. Resembling a smartphone with visible eye sensors, it’s a smaller, more accessible version of Worldcoin’s original Orb. Unveiled at the “At Last” event in San Francisco on April 30, the device is part of a broader push by Tools for Humanity , which also plans to roll out 7,500 Orb units across the US by year-end. Related: Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto project World launches in US Crypto users question Orb Mini’s practicality Several prominent voices raised concerns over security, ethics, and basic practicality. “What real-life problem does this solve?” one user asked, while others mocked its vulnerability to spoofing, with one tweet suggesting the device “could be fooled by a half-decent AI render of a human.” In the same thread, one user sarcastically recommended a “rectal probe” for more secure identity checks, claiming, “Every human’s anal print is unique.” Critics also slammed the device’s social implications. Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten called the Orb Mini a “creepy dystopia-shilling” tool, suggesting the product reflects insecurity among its creators rather than solving any real trust issue. Source: Cory Klippsten Related: Brazil’s data watchdog upholds ban on World crypto payments Worldcoin faces resistance Worldcoin’s push to make biometric identity tools mainstream continues to face resistance, especially as privacy advocates raise questions about decentralization, surveillance, and bodily autonomy. On May 5, the company, backed by Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity, faced challenges in Indonesia after local regulators temporarily suspended its registration certificates. Several global regulators have pushed back on World’s operations since its launch in July 2023 , with governments like Germany , Kenya and Brazil expressing concerns over potential risks to the security of users’ biometric data. Magazine: Bitcoin eyes ‘crazy numbers,’ JD Vance set for Bitcoin talk: Hodler’s Digest, May 4 – 10

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