US Crypto Fans Are Drawn to Altman's Worldcoin Orb and They're Not Sure Why

About 2 million people worldwide have had their irises scanned by Tools for Humanity. Now the firm is rolling out in the US, even though its tokens aren’t available there.

A Worldcoin poster hanging in the window of a Blankspaces co-working space in Santa Monica, California, on July 26. 

Photographer: Caelyn Pender/Bloomberg
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From Manhattan’s Oculus building to a co-working space in Southern California, Americans are getting their irises scanned by a chrome orb that Sam Altman helped create.

Unlike the roughly 2 million people around the world who’ve completed similar scans in exchange for payment, these US registrants aren’t getting much of value from Worldcoin, the OpenAI chief executive's latest crypto project.