Tanakh,
How can this be dreamed up, when we have a perfect match for the prophecy? The word of God states that this mark will on the hand or the forehead and that without it no one will be able to buy or sell. Currently people are being implanted under the skin of the hand, which is one match, and one of its purposes is to make electronic purchases, which is a second match. This electronic crediting and debiting system (buying and selling) is evolving in preparation for the revealing of the antichrist/beast. The very fact that this matches what scripture states is a testimony in itself of the truth and accuracy of His word.
It must be a great deception indeed in order for you or anyone else to claim that this technology is not the mark of the beast, because it tells me that because of your inability to recognize it as such, you would be one to receive it doing exactly what scripture warns us not to do. The bottom line is that, this technology is going to continue to evolve and people (all people) during that time are going to receive a mark/device in or on the hand or forehead which will replace card swiping and cell phone bank apps. in order for them to make purchases. A good rule of thumb would be to not have anything applied to ones body which would allow them to electronically buy or sell.