Topic: WORLDCOIN / ANTAUI RABBIT HOLE (Read 227 times)

I didn't see your comments here Krog until this thread popped up again. Better later than never: Very nice hologram

                               

I should have gotten around to this sooner.

I had approached the Worldcoin folks who are still working on the project and the guy who made these coins was no longer involved.
They were not aware that the PK's could not be used directly as they were. However, they did work with me and helped me to get the resolution needed to convert the PK's.

the github for the project is here: https://github.com/expatjedi/wdcaddress.org

it will have a link to the following site: https://wdcaddress.org/ once you go to the address, take the pc offline.

once on the page, click "wallet details"

enter the private key as it is shown on the coin - should start with a "S"

and then click "view details"

Your coins Public Address will be the one on the left under the "Worldcoin Address" heading - ignore the one on the right for the "Worldcoin Address Compressed"

I used the Worldcoin QT wallet found here: https://www.worldcoin.global/wdc/#wallets

Either version of the presented private key should work - either the 51 chars or the 52 chars. I have tested this now with 5 coins and had success each time.

Using this may prompt the wallet to do a rescan but once it is done, your funds should be there. See below for one such coins balance.

I still pop in from time to time to check in and see if there's any interest in these.  I still have several, which I've mentioned before, but I bought both on the original release, and then picked up the remaining stock from Gudmunsen when WDC tanked after the whole Sharmbeck incident.

Anyway, I found the C# project that was created to allow you to scan a coin barcode and expand it to a proper key.  I don't think I can upload a zip here, but if anyone is interested, DM me and I'll try to take the time to create a Github with the code, or something.

Keep in mind, this is old so I don't know if it will compile or run.  It should have the code that someone can reverse-engineer, though.  Regardless, I think the original author took it from another tool on git an modified the address system to map to WDC addresses, rather than BTC addresses.  In fact, I think it might be the same tool (again, only modified to work with WDC) that was used to expand the OG Cascasius coins.  It's been yeeeeears since I looked into this stuff, so I can't fully recall.

  Thanks for sharing this with us...this is one coin that was hard to find back in my time and I was really attracted to the hologram design and the nice swirl they incorporated in it. Perhaps you should post that up as well.

  Finally out to dinner in Manhattan with a bunch of crypto guys and was gifted this coin by MJ!   

  That was one heck of a gift I can tell ya that! Cheers!

I would be interested In knowing why were they not usable and what you had to do.

That would be great.

Yes two separate “worldcoins” this came up about a year ago - when someone peeled a coin and could not get the key to work - I spent a month or two working with the original worldcoin guys to get the keys usable - as the coins are now, you cannot import the pk.

I really need to write up the process and post it here. One of these days.

You may have spotted an article or Tweet about Worldcoin lately.

Here's an example Article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/worldcoin-launch-sam-altman/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAMljq7e2zNF35eUVvo7H9_WzdDOFSd8944e9W1CNZrLHgS-w1UXkPm1GDKgFyC_c2Vy5rF-rVr62849MIjpf5YA9L-FM7k60TwK41KE5zEnPdKjBBJzuzzlVCmVLLYLwkeovtjgWKbeNEVYBLmHAKDHItua5OJAz3UiW59zAvk

I paid attention to this due to my interest in Antaui Coins, which are loaded with Worldcoin.



My initial thought after seeing a headline was that this group must
have taken over the Worldcoin blockchain to innovate it and bring it to a new use case.
This would have been cool and I was quickly wondering if I should dust off the Antaui
coin and prepare for the moon ( )

However, this is a second Worldcoin. The old one loaded on Antaui coins is WDC, ranked #3618 by market cap,
and the new one WLD, ranked #137 by market cap. I cannot say why they went with a token name that was
already created.

Here is one of the founders (Sam Altman)



Just Kidding. Here they are:



The premise of their enterprise is to develop a system that verifies human vs robot
in a digital world using iris scanning tech (called an Orb) and a verification network. The reason for why they
need a token and a blockchain is unclear. My personal take on this with just a little bit of rooting
through their material is admittedly somewhat cynical. My opinion is they probably devised this
because of profit potential rather than a true need to develop another alt coin. Instead of devising
the tech and system to work on existing blockchains, they want their own economic controls. Yes, they cite
bridges and all that that to be compatible, but they still went with creating their own token, which is
ERC20.

This sentence from their material seems quite hyperbolic:



So for all the Antaui lovers out there thinking their day in the sun had arrived, apologies.
Seems we have another Worldcoin on the block. Maybe they will make a physical coin loaded
with their token.