Martijn Wismeijer, a marketing manager at General Bytes, the bitcoin ATM manufacturing firm, has gone to great lengths to safeguard his bitcoin holdings. In 2014 he paid a body piercing artist $75 to inject a chip underneath his skin to store the cryptocurrency. The chip is a xNT near-field communication (NFC) microchip device, and it is approximately the size of a grain of rice. The chip was implanted in the space between his thumb and index finger. Speaking on the procedure, Wismeijer said it was no more painful than getting an IV drip. Subdermal Cryptocurrency Storage Despite the decline in the price of bitcoin, ... (full story)