Kenya’s interior cabinet secretary Kithure Kindiki has claimed that US authorities blocked the country from detaining several top executives of controversial crypto project Worldcoin. Worldcoin ’s co-founder and CEO Alex Blania, as well as its chief legal counsel Thomas Scott, were among those arrest ed in Nairobi’s airport by Kenya n authorities, a spokesperson for Worldcoin ’s parent firm confirmed to local outlet Nation. Co-founded by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman, the crypto company has come under fire across the globe for privacy and ethical concerns. In Kenya alone, it’s estimated that at least 350,000 people had elected to have their irises scanned by the company in exchange for just Sh7,000 ($48) in its volatile cryptocurrency, WLD. In swift response to Worldcoin’s global rollout, Kenya decided to block the project on August 2. It set up an independent committee to probe its impacts. US tells Kenya it wants its Worldcoin bigwigs back At the...
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