Traders Are ‘Apeing’ Into a Sam Altman Crypto Lookalike, Driving Prices 68% in 24 Hours

Traders Are ‘Apeing’ Into a Sam Altman Crypto Lookalike, Driving Prices 68% in 24 Hours
Cryptocurrency traders are inadvertently pumping the price of a little-known altcoin they believe belongs to a project conceived by Sam Altman, former president of tech startup accelerator Y Combinator.Altman, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, unveiled his “Worldcoin” (WC) project earlier on Thursday, promising fair distribution among as “many people as possible.”“If a cryptocurrency were adopted at scale, it would vastly increase access to the internet economy and make applications possible that are now unimaginable,” the project’s webpage reads.I am so excited about this, and users seem to like it too—here’s what growth has looked like during the…