Someone mentioned Orwellian.....how about an implanted chip or a rearranged DNA-cell-complex-identifier like a healed scar or "brand"....oh that sounds a little like "the mark of the beast".
Yes Bitcoin is here to stay and exists as the perfect system for One World Government Control. The accounts can all be seized and then doled out in exchange for some sort of compliance.
As the old timers say "be careful what you wish for"........
All we can do is watch the progression closely and insist on the freedom of its use by devising a completely unique electronic or naturally magnetic pipeline (not the internet) or refuse compliance altogether.
I foresee some sort of "magic wand" (for lack of a better term) where the user is identified by their own unique genetic magnetic field variance.
You could "LOSE" your wand and it would be rendered useless in the possession of anyone else (therefore replaceable). Transmission of payment data is through a frequency within the Earth's magnetic field spectrum triggered and identified by both party's mutual code generation (the unique combination of the two "magic wands".)
In conclusion: BTW I just thought of this while I was writing this so don't forget you heard it here first.
Yes, the body perhaps has a lasting electromagnetic signature. I know that the heart pattern has been suggested for biometric personal identification.
The mark of the beast?
"It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." -- Revelation 13:16-18 (NIV)
Mark on the right hand, that sounds like an implantable microchip, and on the forehead sounds like Google Glass.
A mandatory implantable microchip would indeed be Orwellian. Horrible. I would refuse it.
The magic wand you describe sounds less intrusive, like an ID card that detects the body's unique electromagnetic pattern. And from that ID the user can generate temporary IDs, so that anonymity is preserved when doing transactions over the Internet.
