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Why a Bitcoin ETF Is Making BTC Miners Nervous
With the first U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF seemingly in sight, it has seemed like the entire crypto industry is optimistic about how such a produc...
Worldcoin Troubles Heat Up As Kenyan Lawmakers Accuse Founders Of Data Fraud
Amid the implementation struggles of crypto project Worldcoin in Kenya, Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania has been accused by the Kenyan lawmakers o...
Iris Energy buys 248 Nvidia GPUs worth $10M for generative AI & Bitcoin mining
Nasdaq-listed Iris Energy has bought 248 state of the art Nvidia H100 GPUs for $10 million as it looks to explore opportunities in generativ...
Crypto Guru Warns About Worldcoin And Its CEO Sam Altman – Details
Prominent cryptocurrency influencer and YouTuber Ben Armstrong, popularly known as BitBoy, has warned against the newly launched controversi...
Worldcoin opens up WLD reservations for unverified users
The iris scanning crypto project Worldcoin has now made it possible for even unverified customers to reserve their Worldcoin tokens (WLD). I...
Bavaria’s Data Regulator Had Not Concluded Assessment of Worldcoin When the Project Launched
Bavaria’s data watchdog had not finished its privacy and security assessment of Worldcoin when the project launched, the head of the a...
Worldcoin launch sparks debate over data privacy and future of AI
The controversial digital ID crypto project Worldcoin launched on July 24 after three years of development. The project was co-founded by Sa...
French Privacy Agency Raises Concerns Over Worldcoin’s Biometric Data Collection
The French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés (CNIL), questions the legality of the Worldcoin iris data...
Eye-Scanning Worldcoin (WLD) Project To Face Inquiry From UK Watchdog: Report
A crypto project co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman will face an inquiry from a UK data watchdog. According to a new Reuters report, Britai...
Crypto Twitter marks Worldcoin as ‘evil’ project
The iris-scanning digital currency project, Worldcoin (WLD), co-developed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has risen concerts right after its launc...
Vitalik Buterin Issues Warning on $22,500,000,000 Crypto Project From OpenAI CEO, Says Major Privacy Risks Loom
Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin is weighing in on Worldcoin (WLD), a newly launched crypto project from OpenAI, the creators of ChatG...
I Had My Iris Scanned by the Worldcoin Orb, and It Wasn’t as Scary as I Expected
Paris, FRANCE – There’s nothing quite like having a futuristic orb pointed at your face to start off the day. But that’s how a brunch ...