Essay: Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed
Australian-based law professor KATHARINE KEMP looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at concerns over Worldcoin’s efforts to scan people’s irises in exchange for online identity verification and “free” cryptocurrency…
Cyber crime: Asian tech workers held captive in scam factories
ANURADHA NAGARAJ and NANCHANOK WONGSAMUTH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how tech-savvy Asians are being lured with fake job adverts and then forced to defraud strangers through crypto and romance scams…
Salaries to remittances: Afghans embrace crypto amid financial chaos
Thomson Reuters Fiundation When Roya Mahboob began paying her staff and freelancers in Afghanistan in bitcoin nearly 10 years ago, little did she know that for some of these women the digital currency would be their ticket out of the country after the fall of Kabul in August. Mahboob, a founder of the non-profit Digital […]
El Salvador: Bitcoin “experiment” leaves digital poor on the sidelines
ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on fears El Salvador’s poorest people and those who do not own smartphones or have digital literacy skills could be further marginalised by the country’s introduction of bitcoin…
POSTCARDS: FROM BITCOINS TO TOMATOES – ALL CHANGE IN GEORGIA AFTER CURRENCY SLUMP
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Georgia…