Eightco Stock Surges 5,700% on $250M Worldcoin Investment

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The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

Eightco's dive into biometric payments is a bold, smart move. This $6 trillion market promises faster, secure and phone-free transactions that boost retailer efficiency and customer loyalty. With Dan Ives steering the ship and a $250M Worldcoin investment, Eightco is poised to ride the AI-driven authentication wave, revolutionizing market efficiency in a world craving secure, seamless payments.

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Establishment-critical narrative

These investments are part of the financial tech industry's dystopian future, where innovation masks mass surveillance and exploitation. This sector erodes privacy for profit, turning everyday transactions into data grabs. Worldcoin, with its creepy iris-scanning orbs, lures desperate people with crypto crumbs while hoarding biometrics. This is Altman's power play: a global, ID-financed universal basic income to control the world.

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Metaculus Prediction

There is a 34% chance that before 2031, a G7 country will have an active, publicly-funded Universal Basic Income pilot program covering at least 25,000 people, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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