TL;DR: Both ONTO Wallet and Worldcoin aim to prove you are human for the AI era. However, Worldcoin requires scanning your iris with an Orb, while ONTO uses decentralized identity and zero-knowledge proofs, offering a more privacy-preserving alternative. As AI becomes indistinguishable from humans online, "Proof of Human" has become one of the most critical challenges in tech. Two major Web3 projects are tackling this, but with radically different philosophies: Worldcoin and ONTO Wallet. Worldcoin's approach is hardware-based and biometric. They require users to visit a physical "Orb" to scan their irises, creating a unique hash to prove personhood. While effective, this has raised massive privacy concerns globally [1]. ONTO Wallet takes a software-based, cryptographic approach. It uses ONT ID (Decentralized Identity) and zkTLS (Zero-Knowledge Transport Layer Security) to verify your digital footprint and credentials without requiring biometric data. | Feature | Worldcoin | ONTO Wallet | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Verification Method | Biometric (Iris Scan) | Cryptographic (DID & zkTLS) | | Hardware Required | Yes (The Orb) | No (Just a smartphone) | | Privacy Concerns | High (Biometric data collection) | Low (Zero-knowledge proofs) | | Primary Use Case | Universal Basic Income (UBI) | Data Monetization for AI | If you are uncomfortable handing over your biometric data to a centralized entity, ONTO Wallet provides a secure, privacy-preserving way to prove your humanity and monetize your data in the AI economy. Q: Does ONTO Wallet collect my biometric data? A: No. ONTO relies on cryptographic proofs and your verified digital history, not physical biometrics. Q: Why is "Proof of Human" important for AI? A: AI models need to train on data generated by real people to avoid degradation. They also need to filter out bot traffic to maintain the integrity of their systems. Q: Can I use both? A: Yes, they are not mutually exclusive, but they serve different primary purposes and have different privacy implications. References [1] "Privacy Concerns Surrounding Worldcoin's Orb," Wired, 2025. submitted by /u/Rc7xn [link] [Kommentare]
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Yesterday I posted that I went all-in with my life savings — $171,000 — into Bitcoin. Right away the comments were full of people laughing at me: “Haha, Bitcoin is gonna crash anyway”, “Dumb move bro, should’ve bought something else” and all that stuff. So I have a real question for all these smart guys in the comments: If you’re so sure Bitcoin is going to drop hard, why aren’t you rich from it? If you really know it’s gonna crash, why don’t you open a big short position with leverage, put in serious money and make hundreds of thousands or even millions? Then you could take that profit, put it in good dividend stocks and just live off the money without working. Instead, it seems like most of you have maybe $10 in your account (or nothing) and you just sit here writing mean comments to people who are actually risking their own money. Me? I don’t pretend I know exactly where Bitcoin is going. I took a real risk with my savings. That’s normal when you invest. But if I knew for sure what was gonna happen, of course I would use leverage and make at least $200-300K profit. I wouldn’t waste my time writing hate comments under random posts. So tell me — are you actually trading on your “big knowledge”… or are you just keyboard warriors and dreamers? submitted by /u/MobApps1 [link] [Kommentare]
So.... back 2y ago more or less, I've invested in this shitty token. Using 2 wallets I bought through ERC and SOL. Up until today I was never able to claim the tokens. Using my Coinbase Wallet, Metamask, nothing works. How many of us have this issue?? Did anyone here managed to get their tokens? Should I accept the fact that I was scammed? submitted by /u/Professional_Shape41 [link] [Kommentare]
Been building this for a few weeks and finally shipped it today. It's called Outcomes; basically a pari-mutuel prediction market on Cardano. Pick Yes or No on a question, back it with ADA, and if you're right you split the losing side's pool with everyone else who called it correctly. No house, no fixed odds, the pool itself is the odds. How it actually works under the hood: every bet mints a little NFT ticket tied to that specific match so the contract can verify it's a real bet and not something forged. When the result gets posted, the smart contract pays everyone out in one transaction; no claiming, no waiting on us, it just lands in your wallet. There's a 10% fee taken only from the losing pool, which is what funds the protocol. app.ourodex.io/outcomes Would genuinely love feedback, especially if something breaks or feels confusing. This is v1. And if you are interested Belgium vs Iran bet is live. submitted by /u/Dangerous_Pension183 [link] [Kommentare]
Imagine two groups of people. One group owns houses, apartments, land, vehicles, precious metals, and other forms of tangible wealth. The other group holds pieces of paper they call money. In the past, the situation was reversed: the subsequent owners of those papers held the tangible wealth, having created it through their own hard work. The latter group, however, did nothing. They only thought about how to get their hands on that wealth. So, they devised these pieces of paper, along with a story about facilitating exchange, to convince others to hand over their wealth. And the others naively did just that. This raises a crucial, existential question: why would those who now hold the tangible wealth ever hand it back to those with the pieces of paper? There is no economic, logical, or any other rational reason to do so. When someone hands you a car that can satisfy a multitude of real, existential needs in exchange for a piece of paper that fulfills none, you would be crazy to give that car up again just because of a utopian story about how that same paper facilitates exchange. This is precisely why Bitcoin has already collapsed, even though people are not yet aware of it. It is the exact same story about money, with the only difference being that the token is digital rather than paper. But the essence of the situation remains the same. There was a group that had tangible wealth and gave it up for the story of money, and a second group that now holds their wealth. Although exchanges are still happening at a certain level due to current market mania and blind faith in that story, statistics show they are constantly declining. When the mania finally subsides, the harsh reality will remain: those who have acquired tangible wealth will not give it up for the sake of those holding tokens. How is it then that, for example, the US dollar did not collapse a long time ago? The gold standard hasn’t existed for over half a century, and dollars today are just pieces of paper or digital records. If we go back to the story of the two groups of people, in the case of the dollar, there is one extremely powerful reason why the collapse did not happen. There is a force that compels those who received tangible wealth to return it to dollar holders. Namely, the dollar is issued as debt. Banks create it by approving loans. When those debtors receive tangible wealth from the public using newly created dollars, they have to pay it back in installments. To return those dollars to the banks and save their real property from foreclosure, they must work and create new wealth for those holding dollars. In the case of the state, which is the largest debtor, it accepts the dollar as a means of settling tax obligations because of its debt, thereby saving dollar holders from asset seizure or prison. So, there is no utopian story about facilitating exchange for theoretical economists to philosophize about here. There is only the harsh reality of existential coercion. It is this very coercion that has kept the dollar alive for over half a century. A financial gun pointed at the head is the only real reason why those who received tangible wealth return that same wealth to those who hold dollars. With Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, on the other hand, the story is entirely different. Here, we have people who, solely because of a utopian story about money, gave up their tangible wealth (or dollars that return that wealth through the mechanism of coercion) and who now hold nothing but digital records in their hands. Since there is no mechanism of coercion to force the other group, which has acquired real wealth, to return that same wealth to the record holders, the crypto project has already collapsed at its core. Most people still do not realize this because they blindly focus on the price, which is nothing more than a measure of how much real wealth the last individual in line sacrificed. Theoretically, there could be just two people pumping the price of Bitcoin to a million through mutual exchanges. But that is completely irrelevant. The raw reality on a general level remains relentless: there is absolutely no reason for the group that got the tangible wealth to ever give up a single part of it again in favor of those holding digital pieces of paper. Existence always triumphs over utopia. submitted by /u/BinaryLyric [link] [Kommentare]
## Except from article. The reported allocation is not being framed as a short-term bet on crypto prices. CoinPost said the main goal is currency risk diversification. The fund’s fiscal 2025 asset mix stood at 80% yen, 15% dollars and 5% other currencies. For fiscal 2026, the fund plans to cut yen exposure to 70% and add a 10% allocation to developed-market currencies. Another 5% would include emerging-market currencies, gold and crypto. Aiyu Kiguchi, the fund’s investment executive director, reportedly said the dollar “may lose its status as a reserve currency,” explaining why the fund did not raise dollar holdings. submitted by /u/zesushv [link] [Kommentare]
Imagine two groups of people. One group owns houses, apartments, land, vehicles, precious metals, and other forms of tangible wealth. The other group holds pieces of paper they call money. In the past, the situation was reversed: the subsequent owners of those papers held the tangible wealth, having created it through their own hard work. The latter group, however, did nothing. They only thought about how to get their hands on that wealth. So, they devised these pieces of paper, along with a story about facilitating exchange, to convince others to hand over their wealth. And the others naively did just that. This raises a crucial, existential question: why would those who now hold the tangible wealth ever hand it back to those with the pieces of paper? There is no economic, logical, or any other rational reason to do so. When someone hands you a car that can satisfy a multitude of real, existential needs in exchange for a piece of paper that fulfills none, you would be crazy to give that car up again just because of a utopian story about how that same paper facilitates exchange. This is precisely why the Bitcoin project has actually already failed, even though people are not yet aware of it. It is the exact same story about money, with the only difference being that the token is digital rather than paper. But the essence of the situation remains the same. There was a group that had tangible wealth and gave it up for the story of money, and a second group that now holds their wealth. Although exchanges are still happening at a certain level due to current market mania and blind faith in that story, statistics show they are constantly declining. When the mania finally subsides, the harsh reality will remain: those who have acquired tangible wealth will not give it up for the sake of those holding tokens. How is it then that, for example, the US dollar did not collapse a long time ago? The gold standard hasn’t existed for over half a century, and dollars today are just pieces of paper or digital records. If we go back to the story of the two groups of people, in the case of the dollar, there is one extremely powerful reason why the collapse did not happen. There is a force that compels those who received tangible wealth to return it to dollar holders. Namely, the dollar is issued as debt. Banks create it by approving loans. When those debtors receive tangible wealth from the public using newly created dollars, they have to pay it back in installments. To return those dollars to the banks and save their real property from foreclosure, they must work and create new wealth for those holding dollars. In the case of the state, which is the largest debtor, it accepts the dollar as a means of settling tax obligations because of its debt, thereby saving dollar holders from asset seizure or prison. So, there is no utopian story about facilitating exchange for theoretical economists to philosophize about here. There is only the harsh reality of existential coercion. It is this very coercion that has kept the dollar alive for over half a century. A financial gun pointed at the head is the only real reason why those who received tangible wealth return that same wealth to those who hold dollars. With Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, on the other hand, the story is entirely different. Here, we have people who, solely because of a utopian story about money, gave up their tangible wealth (or dollars that secure that wealth through the mechanism of coercion) and who now hold nothing but digital records in their hands. Since there is no mechanism of coercion to force the other group, which has acquired real wealth, to return that same wealth to the record holders, the crypto project has already failed at its core. Most people still do not realize this because they blindly focus on the price, which is nothing more than a measure of how much real wealth the last individual in line sacrificed. Theoretically, there could be just two people pumping the price of Bitcoin to a million through mutual exchanges. But that is completely irrelevant. The raw reality on a general level remains relentless: there is absolutely no reason for the group that got the tangible wealth to ever give up a single part of it again in favor of those holding digital papers. Existence always triumphs over utopia. submitted by /u/BinaryLyric [link] [Kommentare]
I've noticed that most traders eventually switch exchanges at some point. Sometimes it's because of fees, sometimes security concerns, and sometimes just a better user experience. What was the main reason you left an exchange and moved to a different one? Lower fees? Better security? Faster withdrawals? Better customer support? More trading pairs? Curious to hear everyone's experiences. submitted by /u/Splinters_suck [link] [Kommentare]
A cool tool to generate vanity addresses for your new token drop submitted by /u/AugmentedGlobal [link] [Kommentare]
What happens to my money if binance doesnt get the license to operate in Europe ? 😕 I dont have a wallet and I cant afford one right now . Will I be able to access my funds with vpn? Thanks submitted by /u/South_Monitor_6992 [link] [Kommentare]
$2.14T The bottom isn’t in. i posted Screenshot on x twitter https://x.com/henry58290/status/2068537156600270962 submitted by /u/henry58290 [link] [Kommentare]
Hi everyone, as the title implies, i am looking for thoughts, recommandations and opinions on using hardware wallets as FIDO/U2F tokens (as well as PGP tokens if possible) from people who used or are using these options. I'm specifically looking for one with these options as i need both FIDO/U2F + PGP and a hardware wallet (for different purposes but i wouldn't mind reducing the cost even if it means my PGP keys are less secure than on 2x 70€ yubikeys which have no crypto usage) As for cryptos, i mostly own SOL and XMR which seems to be both supported by most hardware wallets so probably not an issue. For now, i've seen than both Trezor and Ledger are solid options with these capabilities, but i'd like to get opinions on the options i'm looking for on both of them Thanks for helping :D submitted by /u/1_ane_onyme [link] [Kommentare]
I don’t have time to convince anyone. My results speak for themselves. If you’re serious about trading and willing to learn, the performance and consistency of my work will show you everything you need to know. submitted by /u/Outrageous-Hat9277 [link] [Kommentare]