BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 months agoKenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspensiontechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkKenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspensiontechcrunch.comBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s iris scans over security, financial services and data protection concerns.
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoAfrica has embraced electronic phone payments. They have a venmo like thing that they often use to make payments and can limit how much so if they get robbed they don’t lose their whole bank account.
minus-squareonlinepersonalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoThat may be, but transferring to Africa is expensive af. Banks make a lot of money on remittances. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s criminal. Anti Commercial-AI license
Africa has embraced electronic phone payments. They have a venmo like thing that they often use to make payments and can limit how much so if they get robbed they don’t lose their whole bank account.
That may be, but transferring to Africa is expensive af. Banks make a lot of money on remittances. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s criminal.
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