if you first start by acknowledging that "mark" is multi-facceted word with several meanings you are on the right path to figuring out what it is.
let's consider first the meaning of "characteristic of something" - in this case, the beast. the characteristic of The Beast is that it is unconscious, driven by baked in programs that are anathema to civil society. so, praising vanity, trickery, gluttony, and the use of raw force and violence to achieve your goals. central to that, then, has to be nihilism, because the notion of futurity and respect for civility and ordinaryness is abandoned in favor of an endless hunt for the next most extreme, most intense, and most transgressive, on the path to the next conquest of decency, goodness and respect. dragging as many as possible down with you on your slide into the abyss.
mark also means as in a brand, or deep imprint. this is the form of the word that is presumed literally by many. it's exactly the same thing as what ranchers put on their cattle. so, this form of the Mark of the Beast means that you proudly display who your owners are. this is the political variant of cult confession. hold up that sign, tell them what side you're on. so, in addition to behaving like an animal, you praise your slave masters and fight with other slaves of other masters.
KYC sounds like the mark of the beast, if you ask me, if you condense the previous two definitions.
the use of the words "forehead" and "hands" are also often misinterpreted to mean literal physical. not sure why, maybe it's some psychological collective nightmare thing about being raped, that it's so often linked together with RFID tags and i think this is silly. what thing are people doing that involves the palm face of their hands, facing towards the forehead? just add the blueish glow.
if you ask me, it's a constellation of strategies of mental enslavement, and rituals around locking people into these things. but isn't it starting to get to a point now where the thing in your hand, facing your forehead, is the thing they want you to use to make payments and communicate to do business?
so, i'm just gonna say, that the whole mobile phone culture, KYC, and social media manipulation, is the cluster of things that combine to create all of the features i can extract out of the meanings of the words, in their english translation, of what John the Prophet recorded in his book.
note that earlier in the book it also talks about how before this all starts, the angels mark the elect and the fallen angels are forbidden to harm them. what is the mark referred to here?
a righteous person will immediately know that they are being branded and inducted into evil, and will shun, and maybe even flee it, at any cost. the drones staring constantly at the screen in their hand, illuminating their forehead with false light, are to caught up with their political signalling and chanting of the doctrinal slogans of their masters in their chapter of the imaginary "side" against which the other "side" is in an endless war with.
why else would it be that so many are drawn to bitcoin, and are christian, there is a lot of us. because the mark of the beast is the totality of the program of enslavement of the masses, preparing them for the flesh harvest as they march them into war with each other, for no reason that has anything to do with their welfare.
we are just working our way slowly outwards to the edge, joining together as a network, pooling our resources, and building the parallel society of the remnant.
and if you already got the mark from the angels, this stuff has nothing to do with you. when it pops up in front of you, you back away from it and like a snake you saw soon enough, it won't come for you because you didn't threaten it. this is what a righteous person does in the face of conflict. they bend, they scatter, and they are cautious in their step so they don't step on the tail. so you have to be alert, but calm, because being nervous is also dangerous, which is also why we are told specifically that "they cannot hurt us". ok, maybe that doesn't mean we can't die from some mistake we made, but our soul is secured. it's that, which the beast wants to feed on. the beast thinks that if it eats enough souls it becomes The God.
what's actually going to be happening is 1/3 is incinerated. the ones with the mark of the beast.