It’s easy to take it another step.
The hacking will play a part in how cash is phased out. Perhaps the hacking disables note validation at banks or maybe it makes real notes be seen as fakes. Either way, at the start the banks will honour changing your notes on hand to digital money if you open a bank account with them. After a period business will no longer accept cash due to banks.
China is rebuilding their hardware and software infrastructure as a stand alone unit. The cloud and many hardware services are run in China and we are in the midst of an energy wind down. China bans foreign IT services and sells the hardware —> the same as they did for Bitcoin. Western world suffers mass disruption as our entire infrastructure is brought to its knees.
We have no chips. No hardware. No energy. No manufacturing.
The civil management/behavioural tools are implemented as crowd control for when shortages get worse. We will be taught to want less because we will have less.
