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Worldcoin is bringing its eyeball-scanning tech to Reddit, Discord, and... Minecraft?

The Sam Altman-backed crypto project announced the rollout of World ID 2.0, which can apparently use your eyeball scan to verify your identity when signing into an account or applying for online verification status. Worldcoin says the update should make it “easier to distinguish between bots and verified humans online.”

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