Orb
product on 4 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 17 times in 6 episodes since 2023
the a16z Podcast 9 
Latent Space 5 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Sourcery 1
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Blania: World splits iris data across servers to avoid central databases
“And how we approach that is we have multi-party computation. And so that essentially means that, so in our case, when you verify with an orb. You know, we take all these pictures they get computed on the device, and then they actually get split up in multiple …”
Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified
“So we're not, I think, thirty-seven million users total. Seventeen million of which are verified, so they used one of these orbs.”
Yahya: Worldcoin orb never transmits raw biometric data off-device
“In fact, like, the data itself never leaves the orb, and only a code or a cryptographic object that is derived from the biometric data ever leaves the orb, and from that cryptographic object that is not possible to infer anything about the biometric data itsel…”