Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

What's going on, guys? It is Monday, July 24th, and today we are asking whether World

Coin, which is now live, is a good faith global UBI effort in the era of artificial intelligence

or a dystopian dumpster fire? Before we get into that, a quick note, If you would like to join the conversation about such

topics as these, let me invite you to the Breakers Discord. It is a place for chatting what's

going on on in the show, what's going on in the world, and you can find a link at bit.ly

slash breakdown pod. Second quick note before we dive in.

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All right, so today, friends, we have a spicy one.

One of the most ambitious and most controversial crypto projects has gone live,

and what we're going to try to do today is get the first wave of community reactions.

Now, for the sake of this episode, we're particularly interested in how the crypto community

is looking at WorldCoin and talking about it, but for a deeper explanation of the artificial

intelligence context around this project, check out today's AI breakdown, which explores

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