Sam Altman’s Other Startup Wants You to Prove You’re Human
Live MintThese ubiquitous Orbs would allow us to do anything requiring identification, online or in real life, from buying bread to paying taxes. World’s mini app store is part of a broader strategy to create an “everything app." World is no mere side project for Altman, says Blania, who speaks with him a couple of times a week: “He’s involved in essentially every major decision that I make." World’s “proof of human" powers were a unique enabler of a new mini-app in the World app store called Credit, says Diego, the Argentina-based developer of the app, who goes by only his first name. Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said on the company’s most recent earnings call that X Money will use Visa’s systems to allow users to fund their “X Wallet" with a debit card, which will also enable peer-to-peer transactions on X. X has vastly more users than World does, but it’s unclear how many people will be eager to entrust an Elon Musk-owned company with their financial lives.
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