Would you implant a tiny debit card chip in your hand? Forget fingerprint or facial recognition... 'biometric' payment is being touted as fu

Walletmor claims to be the first company to sell contactless bank-card chips

The procedure to fit one leaves customers with a small stitch below the wrist

Once the chip is in, users no longer have to bother with debit or credit cards

To make a purchase they can simply wave their hand over a contactless reader


On networking website LinkedIn, entrepreneur Wojtek Paprota calls himself a 'transhumanism believer'.

He is referring to a radical, but growing, movement that wants humans to use technology to evolve beyond their physical limitations.

The British-Polish businessman is founder of Walletmor — which claims to be the first company in the world to sell contactless bank-card chips that can be implanted into humans


The procedure is simple, if bloody, and leaves customers with a small stitch below the wrist.

Once the chip is in, users no longer have to bother with debit or credit cards. To make a purchase they can wave their hand over a contactless reader. It might sound like a dystopian fantasy, but Walletmor is evidence of how quickly the payment industry is progressing.

From chip implants to facial recognition software on your mobile, this new technology is aiming to consign cash and bank cards to the history books.

But is the rapidly growing sector dangerously out of its depth? Certainly Walletmor appears to be.

Today Money Mail can reveal the firm — which has featured on both the BBC and Forbes — has been plunged into controversy after it emerged it had misled customers.


Mr Paprota had been repurposing chips from a third-party supplier, MuchBetter, which is associated with Mastercard.

Once they were alerted to Walletmor's actions, both companies pulled the plug — citing 'health and safety concerns

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