The founder of ATM Bitcoin, Mr. Bitcoin, has incorporated a small chip in his hands to keep his digital currency safe, also providing his body with a set of keys and an alarm clock.
Dutch entrepreneur Martijn Wismeijer has an NFC (Near Field Communication) chip injected into each hand between the muscle tissue and the skin.
The ultra-cautious Mr. Wismeijer says it is crucial to have encrypted chips to prevent theft, although actually stealing the chips would be complicated, bloody and painful for its owner.
Each chip, made of glass, is 2mm x 12mm and can hold up to 888 programmable memory bits, the equivalent of about 26 condensed bitcoin private keys.
I did it because I wanted to experiment with strong bitcoins using subdermal implants because I thought it would be the Holy Grail of contactless payments.
He told IBTimes.
But Mr. Wismeijer found that microchips could be used for a number of other things and can be read by smartphones such as Apple's iPhone 6 and Samsung's Galaxy S5.
I discovered that you can use them for a lot of different things, even as a snooze alarm button. To turn off my alarm I need to analyze one or two of the implants, so in this way it takes a bit of fiddling and you never fall asleep again.
Wismeijer also hopes to obtain a special lock installed in his house, which will allow him to make disappear the keys by the contact of the palm of his hand in the frame of the door to enter.
I thought that if the storage is limited, then it does not make sense to get only one being able to have two, because with one I could store private information like crypto currencies or two-factor authentication for passwords, while the other could use it for public things like my contacts. emergency or my business card.