You keep asking if I think money is the mark but I have not stated this in any of my post. This is a conditioned approach to this I think in that everyone see's everyone else reasoning through it in this manner and so they do the same thing that the others do. Money is the way they buy and sell if they receive the mark or the name or an number(think about that Scripture).
The "name of that beast"(identity) is what you are asking about not the mark if you consider what you are asking, that is you are asking about the mark to so that you can "identify the beast"(backward approach). If you want to understand the mark you first should resolve who the beast that was,was not yet is,is in the first place then the method of buying and selling implemented by that beast will fall into place. I think I have said enough about this for now because until it is understood that that beast is given it's power and authority by the dragon and not God then the method of buying and selling cannot be understood and many are not clear on this at this time.
Sign and wonder seekers came up with the idea of a literal mark as if it had to do with the future and not the foundation of the doctrine found in Genesis .
The Bible is not concerned with the political $$$$$$ kingdom of this world .Which is already one world government in that way .One god of this world Satan. the spirits of lies. The fear of avoiding the idea of one world government in respect to what the eyes see. Only show some refuse to walk by faith the unseen eternal
The mark is the mark of Cain a restless faithless wanderer receiving no rest (sabbath) from the gospel as did Able. A work that was more punishment for sin that Cain could bear, the agony of suffering a living hell, dying, living in a body of death.
Like Esau, Cain saw not value in the unseen things of God.(faith) Cain sold his first born privilege seeing no value. For peace of mind. Kill the messenger Abel (the first martyr) bury him down under in the corn field. The out of sight out of mind pagan foundation. Esau sold his birth rite for a cup of soup.
Its not buying and selling the things needed for these bodies of death as some sort of political embargo.
What mankind should be concerned with is a famine for hearing the word of God. The gospel of our salvation
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Truth sets
free. lying sign as lying wonders bind to the things of earth.