Professor Richard Werner, a leading German economist, has had considerable interaction with central banks. He believes that part of the Central Bank Digital Currencies, will be to have people having a chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in their hand. This could be compared to the biblical warnings of the Beast. According to Werner, “You have to think of CDBCs as a control system [or a permit system], not a currency.” And he sees, and rightly so, as a violation of human dignity because of the extreme control factor. “They say there’s a problem of trust because people suspect that governments and central banks are just trying to roll this out in order to monitor and control and restrict transactions. They’re absolutely right,” said Werner. “That is the true attraction for central planners to this powerful technology.”
Revelation 13: 16-18, is relevant: “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.16Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,17so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.18This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.” There seems to be all of the elements here, except for the number, which, I suppose will turn up at some point.